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To determine:
How corpse flower guarantee mating with a different individual and produce offspring with slightly different characteristics that may aid in survival.
Introduction:
Amorphophallus titanum is known by the name “corpse flower”. It is a flowering plant, which has the largest unbranched inflorescence. It is called the corpse flower because of its odor, which smells like a rotting carcass or corpse.
To determine:
How and where
Introduction:
Angiosperms are vascular flowering plants. There are about
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