The category of plants called ___________ includes all our food crops

The category of plants called ___________ includes all our food crops

• A. Gymnosperms
• B. Bryophytes
• C. Angiosperms
• D. Ferns

Answer: (C)

Angiosperms are flowering plants that produce seeds enclosed inside fruits. This trait is central to why they include all our food crops: many edible crops come from flowering plants whose seeds or fruits we eat, such as wheat, rice, maize, beans, fruits, and vegetables. The flowers enable pollination and seed production in a way that supports large, diverse crops. In contrast, gymnosperms have naked seeds that aren’t enclosed in fruit (think conifers), bryophytes are non-vascular plants like mosses that reproduce by spores, and ferns also reproduce by spores and have vascular tissue but no seeds. So the group that contains the whole set of human food crops is angiosperms.

Angiosperms are flowering plants that produce seeds enclosed inside fruits. This trait is central to why they include all our food crops: many edible crops come from flowering plants whose seeds or fruits we eat, such as wheat, rice, maize, beans, fruits, and vegetables. The flowers enable pollination and seed production in a way that supports large, diverse crops.

In contrast, gymnosperms have naked seeds that aren’t enclosed in fruit (think conifers), bryophytes are non-vascular plants like mosses that reproduce by spores, and ferns also reproduce by spores and have vascular tissue but no seeds. So the group that contains the whole set of human food crops is angiosperms.