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angiosperm

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angiosperm (ăn`jēəspûrm'), term denoting seed plants in which the ovules, or young seeds, are enclosed within the ovary (that part of the pistil specialized for seed production), in contrast to the gymnosperms, in which the seeds are not enclosed within an ovary. The angiosperms constitute the division Magnoliophyta Magnoliophyta , division of the plant kingdom consisting of those organisms commonly called the flowering plants, or angiosperms. The angiosperms have leaves, stems, and roots, and vascular, or conducting, tissue (xylem and phloem).
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 and include all agricultural crops (including the cereal grains and other grasses), all garden flowers and most horticultural plants, all the common broad-leaved shrubs and trees, and all the usual field, garden, and roadside weeds. The angiosperms are the most economically important group of all plants.
angiosperm [′an·jē·ō‚spərm]
(botany)
The common name for members of the plant division Magnoliophyta.

angiosperm
A class of seed plants (having seeds enclosed in an ovary) which includes most of the world’s flowering plants.


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But he said that angiosperms only start showing up in the fossil record at the beginning of the Cretaceous period, around 120 million years ago.
However, it has become increasingly clear that polyploidization events are ubiquitous not only among ferns, but also among angiosperms (reviewed in Lockton and Gaut, 2005).
There are two different kinds of trees: angiosperms and gymnosperms.
 
 
 
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