Endosperm vs Angiosperm - What's the difference?
endosperm | angiosperm |
(biology) tissue surrounding the embryo of flowering plant seeds, that provides nutrition to the developing embryo; usually triploid
(botany) Any plant of the clade Angiosperms, characterized by having ovules enclosed in an ovary; a flowering plant.
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* 1997 , Valentin A. Krassilov, Angiosperm Origins: Morphological and Ecological Aspects ,
* 2009 , Xin Wang, 3: New Fossils and New Hope for the Origin of Angiosperms'', Pierre Pontarotti, ''Evolutionary Biology: Concept, Modeling, and Application ,
(botany) pertaining to the angiosperms.
As nouns the difference between endosperm and angiosperm
is that endosperm is (biology) tissue surrounding the embryo of flowering plant seeds, that provides nutrition to the developing embryo; usually triploid while angiosperm is (botany) any plant of the clade angiosperms, characterized by having ovules enclosed in an ovary; a flowering plant.As an adjective angiosperm is
(botany) pertaining to the angiosperms.endosperm
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(en noun)Derived terms
* endospermicExternal links
* ("endosperm" on Wikipedia)angiosperm
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(wikipedia angiosperm)Noun
(en noun)- As with the Lejeuneaceae, this pattern of massive speciation appears to be correlated with the Cretaceous explosion of the angiosperms and the simultaneous creation of a host of new microenvironments, differing in humidity, light intensity, texture, etc.
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- The notion of magnoliaceans as the most primitive living angiosperms , justified or not, does not mean that all their characters, including multilacunar nodal anatomy and the lack of tannins, are primary.
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- With all these features, it is pretty easy for one to identify an angiosperm'. This is a very normal and common practice for neobotanists. However, the situation becomes complicated when you go back to the early history of ' angiosperms .