BOTANY
PLANT ANATOMY
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Question
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The ancestors of land plants were most likely similar to modern=day members of the:
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Cyanobacteria
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Rhodophyta
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Phaeophyta
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Chlorophyta
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Chrysophyta
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The charophyte green algae (CGA) are considered the closest living relatives of the land plants.
Detailed explanation-2: -From a taxonomic point of view, they constitute a paraphyletic group as they likely have a common ancestor with plants: they have the same type of pigments and produce the same kind of carbohydrates during photosynthesis as do land plants.
Detailed explanation-3: -Analyses of both morphological and molecular data have established that land plants evolved within Charophyte algae more than 450 million years ago.
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