Sentences with phrase «gave angiosperms»

The researchers wondered if the evolution of more veins per leaf gave angiosperms the boost they needed to become widespread.

And that would have given the angiosperms the energy to push competitors like conifers out of the canopy around 150 million years ago, making angiosperms the most productive group of land plants in the world.

Not exact matches

Indeed, the genome comparisons revealed that angiosperms evolved 1179 novel genes, many of which gave rise to additional related genes to make up whole new gene families, says project co-leader Claude dePamphilis, an evolutionary biologist at Pennsylvania State University, University Park.