Chapter 22, Problem 6RQ

Summary Introduction

To determine:

The number of species of flowering plants is greater than the number of species in the rest of the plant kingdom combined and explain the feature that is responsible for the enormous success of angiosperms.

Introduction:

The angiosperms are the vascular seed plants in which a fertilized egg grows up into a seed that is enclosed in a hollow ovary. The ovary itself is enclosed by a flower. They have a structure called fruit in which the development of seeds takes place.