Exercise 7.3 - Angiosperms Near Me

• Angiosperms can be categorized based on the number of their cotyledons, or the first embryonic leaf.
• For the history of the two classes:

  Dicots (Magnoliopsida) and the Monocots

  (Liliopsida) as well as the additional traits and definitions to differentiate the classes.
• In a study using chloroplast genomes, Chang et al. 2004 suggests that from bryophytes, plants evolved afterwhich, monocots separated from dicots based on the genes that were present/absent in the genome