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Summary Of: Angiosperms

Flowers aided angiosperms by enabling a wider range of evolutionary relationships and broadening the... gymnosperms and have contributed to the diversification of angiosperms through time with... allowing angiosperms eventually to fill more niches... in angiosperms is significantly reduced in size compared to those of gymnosperm seed plants... while in angiosperms the fertilization begins very soon after pollination... The closed carpel of angiosperms also allows adaptations to specialized pollination syndromes and controls to prevent self... another opportunity for angiosperms to increase their domination of the terrestrial ecosystem with evolutionary adaptations to... These distinguishing characteristics taken together have made the angiosperms the most diverse and numerous land plants and the most commercially important group to humans... some propose that the ancestors of the angiosperms diverged from an unknown group of gymnosperms during the late... when a great diversity of angiosperms appears in the fossil record... angiosperms appear to have become the predominant group of land plants... and use the name angiosperms for this clade... The characteristic feature of angiosperms is the flower...

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