Animals have DNA and they get passed down to next generation from the biological father and mother.
Do plants and trees have DNA? If so, how does it get passed down to next generation as for many plants and trees, there is no concept of a biological father and mother?
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Of course plants have DNA. Like most other living things on the planet, plants reproduce sexually (with some exceptions) by germinating seeds with pollen before dispersing those seeds around.
The pollen is the plant equivalent of sperm, the seed is the egg.
From there the analogy breaks down a bit, because there is much variation, even among flowering plants species, but the common thread is that the individual plants that provided the pollen and the seed give a portion of their DNA to the new plant, with wider variations occurring when there are two individuals instead of one hermaphroditic plant germinating itself
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