Plants that grow flowers and fruits belong to which group?

Seed plants are divided by how they hold their seeds: gymnosperms bear naked seeds on cone-like structures with no surrounding fruit, while angiosperms produce flowers, and after fertilization the ovary develops into a fruit enclosing the seeds. Seedless plants such as ferns and bryophytes reproduce through spores and never form flowers or fruit.

Applying this here: the group whose life cycle includes both a flower stage and a fruit stage is the angiosperms, since their flower’s fertilized ovary matures into the fruit that surrounds the seeds.

Checking each option against its own reproductive structure confirms the distinction:

• Gymnosperms carry exposed seeds on the scales of cones, with no fruit or flower forming around them.

• Ferns reproduce through spores released from sori on the underside of their fronds, with no seed, flower, or fruit stage.

• Bryophytes (mosses and liverworts) are non-vascular plants that reproduce through spores released from a capsule, again with no seed, flower, or fruit stage.