Context: Island genetics provides one proposed explanation for the sudden, fully developed appearance of flowering plants. Island genetics is believed to be a common source of speciation in general, especially when it comes to radical adaptations that seem to have required inferior transitional forms. Flowering plants may have evolved in an isolated setting like an island or island chain, where the plants bearing them were able to develop a highly specialized relationship with some specific animal (a wasp, for example). Such a relationship, with a hypothetical wasp carrying pollen from one plant to another much the way fig wasps do today, could result in the development of a high degree of specialization in both the plant(s) and their partners. Note that the wasp example is not incidental; bees, which, it is postulated, evolved specifically due to mutualistic plant relationships, are descended from wasps.

Question: What is one proposed explanation for the instant appearance of flowering plants?
Answer: Island genetics

Question: What is island genetics thought to be a default source of?
Answer: speciation

Question: What did radical adaptations seem to have required?
Answer: inferior transitional forms

Question: How did an isolated setting like an island help flowering plants evolve?
Answer: highly specialized relationship with some specific animal

Question: What are bees descended from?
Answer: wasps

Question: What are transitional forms descended from?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What is an explanation for the sudden appearance of fig wasps?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What does a relationship between bees and wasps result in?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What is carrying pollen thought to be a common source of?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: How did flowering plants help transitional forms evolve?
Answer: Unanswerable