Understanding Plant Sex

What’s biologically wrong with the following statements?

Human males produce millions of sperm to increase the chance of fertilisation. The babies have legs and arms that help them crawl to find the egg to fertilise it...

Male and female frogs mate in ponds. The female can lay up to 2000 embryos a week, while the male produces many millions of sperm to increase the chance of fertilisation. The tadpoles have tails that help them swim to the egg to fertilise it...

Dandelion seeds are wind dispersed. The seeds have little parachutes that are caught by the wind to carry them a long way to increase the chance of fertilisation.

The following table has some key structures and events in the process of plant sexual reproduction. There is also a column for the equivalent process in animals. Fill in the spaces from the list below. Where there is no animal equivalent, write N/A. The first one has been done for you…

Structure/Stage in Plant Sexual Reproduction Equivalent in AnimalsEgg EggPollenMale sex cellPollen landing on stigmaMale sex cell moving along pollen tubeMale sex cell fertilises eggOvaryAnthers/StamensEmbryoSeedlingSeed

Sperm cells; Embryo; Testes; Sperm cell fertilises egg; Sperm are deposited near the egg; Sperm cells swim along the Fallopian tube; Baby