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The term Pteridophyta was first coined by Haeckel. Eichler (1883) divided the plant kingdom into …
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Read More »Evolution of Plants: Telome Theory
Telome theory was proposed by Walter Zimmerman (1952, 1965). This theory is based on fossil …
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