Is a seed just a plant egg? - Or is a chicken egg just a chicken seed?

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Eggs need to be kept warm and occasionally gently moved, from laying to hatching, else they'll die. A seed can protect its vulnerable contents from bad conditions for a surprisingly long time before everything falls into place that it can germinate and the plant will live.

Seeds are eggs+, they're better eggs.
 
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The fruit we call the strawberry is actually the ovary container of the plant.

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The true fruit of the strawberry plant are known as achenes (uh-keens), the dry fruits which can be seen in large numbers across the ovary container. The achene contains a single seed within.

Off topic, but occasionally plant seeds lose the hormone which prevents the seed from spawning too early in a phenomenon known as "vivipary". When vivipary occurs, the seeds sprout and take root on the parent plant, fruit, wherever. This can also occur for other plant species such as tomatoes, sunflowers, corn, etc. It is fine to eat these fruits when vivipary occurs becsuse it just a bunch of sprouts. Consider it extra fiber.

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