Is pollen a form of sperm?

My bio professor said something along those lines
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Zirp

sort of. Both are haploid cells, made en masse by male organs (some flowers are male and female, some are both). the difference is that pollen don't have a swimming device to propell them, and that plants don't make a foetus but a seed

Roger the Mole

No. But it serves the same purpose.

MARK

No, pollen is not a form of sperm. It is not even a good analogy. Pollen is a fine powder produced by anthers (part of the male reproductive structures of angiosperms (flowering plants)) and the male cones of gymnosperms (seed-bearing plants). Pollen contains pollen grains which are haploid microspores of the partly developed microgametophyte from which the male gamete develops. In summary, a sperm is the male gamete of an animal. Pollen is NOT the male gamete of plants.