The process of fertilization occurs in both plants and animals. There are, of course, differences in the details and mechanisms. On the other hand, some of the similarities are striking. For example, the moss plant has both swimming sperm cells and eggs. In the moss plant, fertilization occurs by the sperm swimming to the egg. Vertebrate animals also carry out reproduction by way of sperm and egg.
One of the differences between plants and animals in this regard is that plants are, for the most part, sedentary. The moss plant depends on rain or very wet conditions in order for the sperm to swim from the male parts of the plant to the egg in the female parts. In the case of animals, the male and female are mobile individuals that physically interact with one another in the process of mating.
Hormones are the intercellular signal discharged into the blood by specific cells, they travel some distance in order to reach their target tissues and to perform other specific activities. Autocrine refers to the intercellular signals, which are discharged by the cells in a local area and affects the activity of the similar type of cell from which it was discharged.
Paracrine refers to the intercellular signals, which are discharged by the cells and influences other kinds of cells locally without being transported into the blood. Pheromones refer to the intercellular signals secreted into the surrounding and change the behavior and physiology of other individuals.
Neurohormones or neurotransmitters are the intercellular signals produced by the neurons. Of the mentioned intercellular signals, the "e" signifies neurotransmitter.
The sexual type of reproduction requires cells to undergo the process of meiosis however the other type which is asexual only mitosis is important to reproduce. In meiosis, a cell is being separated into two unique cells while mitosis reproduce where all cells are identical.
Since the transferrence is interrelated in a system called the food chain where the nutrients from plants is carried off by the first-consumers and second-consumers and so on untill the decomposers take the energy from the withered living organism and back into the system, it is mostly the transferrence of energy.
This flow of energy is present in its development and thus, the food composed by the photosynthetic autotrophs then is changed and took in by herbivores and then when omnivores or carnivores eat them it is translated into another form where it is stored in the cells used in many bodily activities.
