With the planet always changing angiosperms, or flowering plants, have had to adapt from aquatic environments to terrestrial ones. Flowering plants have had to adapt in many way including reproduction, support, and dehydration.
The most important adaptation angiosperms is reproduction. If i plant could not reproduce it would die out. Flowering plants have many ways the pollinate. With many angiosperms they create flowers to attract pollinators such as bees or other insects. This allows the pollen to get spread out very far and gives more diversity in the gene pool of the plant. A few angiosperms can self pollinate , so that if need be they can reproduce, but it does not allow much diversity. Plants now rely on pollinators and themselves for reproduction instead of water as the would have to in an aquatic environment.
The structural adaptations go hand in hand with the adaptations for water intake and loss. Plants gained xylems to help support the plants. The also gained lignin.
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