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Give Examples of Cryptogams and Phanerogams and Why Are They Called So

Answer: Cryptogam is defined as a plant or plantlike creature (such as a fern, moss, alga, or fungus) that reproduces by spores rather than blossoms or seed.

Phanerogams- A blooming plant or seed plant belongs to the Phanerogamia, a former main division of plants that includes species with reproductive organs (opposite of cryptogam).

Examples of Phanerogams are mango, conifers, banyan dicot and so on.