Scientists at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew devised a new classification of the families of flowering plants. This was based on the DNA sequences of three genes found in all plants:
- They used 565 species that represented all the known families of flowering plants in the world.
- For each plant, the DNA sequences of all three genes were determined.
- The sequences for each species were compared using computer analysis.
- A phylogenetic tree for the families of flowering plants was devised based upon the DNA sequence of species used.
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