Year 5 Science · Reproduction in plants and animals · Summary

Year 5 Science Reproduction in plants and animals: summary and key words

Part of the Year 5 Science reproduction in plants and animals chapter. Chapter overview · whole chapter on one page

Chapter summary

Skill	Method
Reproduction	Living things make new living things of their own kind.
Flowers and seeds	Pollen moves to a stigma; fertilisation joins a pollen grain with an ovule, which grows into a seed.
Seed dispersal	Seeds are spread by wind, water, animals or by pods splitting open.
Without seeds	Runners, plantlets and tubers can make new plants that are copies of the parent.
Animals	A sperm joins with an egg in fertilisation. The fertilised egg develops into a young animal.
Many young	Many seeds or young give a better chance that some will survive.

I can explain what reproduction means, and give examples of plants that reproduce without seeds
I can describe pollination, fertilisation and seed dispersal in a flowering plant
I can describe how a sperm and an egg join, and how the young of some animals develop
I can explain why many plants and animals make many seeds or young
I can compare how plants and animals reproduce, using a table

reproduction: the life process by which living things make new living things of their own kind
pollination: when pollen moves from a stamen to the stigma of a flower
fertilisation: when a pollen grain or a sperm joins with an ovule or an egg
seed dispersal: the spreading of seeds away from the parent plant
runner: a stem that grows along the ground and roots to make a new plant
plantlet: a small new plant that grows on the end of a stem
tuber: a swollen underground part of a plant, which can grow a new plant
sperm: the male cell that joins with an egg
ovule: the part inside the ovary that becomes a seed after fertilisation
sexual reproduction: reproduction that needs a male and a female, and joins a sperm with an egg