Identify the features present in the ancestor of land plantsthat helped give rise to the land plants.

Q: Describe two adaptations that are present in mosses, but not hornworts or liverworts, which reflect…

A: Bryophytes are also known as amphibian of the plants kingdom because these plants grow on land but…

Q: What are the three categories of land plants based on morphology? How do these categories relate to…

A: According to our company policy we are supposed to answer the first question. For the rest please…

Q: In what ways do terrestrial plants and their aquatic ancestors differ? Give at least two…

A: Terrestrial plants are land plants developed from thallophyta or algae. Algae are cryptogram which…

Q: What indicates positive evidence of aquatic ancestry bryphytes?

A: Plants are the source of energy for many higher organisms that cannot prepare their own food. They…

Q: Outline the key evolutionary innovations of plants.

A: Plant kingdom includes the autotrophic organisms.

Q: What is the role of strobili or cones in plant kingdom?

A: Plants are mainly multicellular plants that have ability to perform photosynthesis and belong to…

Q: Describe the four groups of seedless vascular plants

A: Introduction: Vascular plants are also known as tracheophytes. These plants have specialised tissues…

Q: among liverworts, hornworts, and mosses, which is the closest to vascular plants? what are the…

A: Vascular plants, otherwise called Tracheophyta, structures an enormous group of plants that are…

Q: . Discuss at least one difference in environmental conditions experiencedby early land plants and…

A: First land plants appeared around 470 million years ago. These were non-vascular plants like…

Q: What adaptations do plants have that allow them to survive on land?

A: When the organisms adapted to life on land, they had to face several challenges in the terrestrial…

Q: Trimerophytes were plants that probably evolved from rhyniophytes but with more derived features. In…

A: There are many tube-shaped fossils of plants found in the Devonian period are superficially kind of…

Q: Make a schematic diagram of "Seed plant phylogeny inferred from all three plant genomes: Monophyly…

A: Angiosperms and four groups of gymnosperms, i.e., cycads, conifers, Ginkgo, and Gnetales (extant…

Q: Differentiate between a spike and receme inflorenscene in grasses

A: In spike inflorescence flowers are arranged on single stem branching can't seen however in raceme…

Q: What features not present in seedless plants havecontributed to the success of seed plants on land?

A: Seedless plants include Pteridophytes, Bryophytes, and Thallophytes. They often reproduce by giving…

Q: What are the three groups of nonvascular plants? How would you determine whether an unknown specimen…

A: Non-vascular plants are considered as those plants, which lack the water vascular system that is…

Q: Which of the following genera most likely directly gave rise to the land plants? a. Volvox b.…

A: Land plants are similar to algae-

Q: Describe how the leaves of ferns and seed plants likely evolvedfrom branched-stem systems.

A: The plants need various substances for their purpose of growth. The plants make their own food with…

Q: In the vascular bundles of flowering plants, protoxylem is closest to the center of the stem, and…

A: The various land vascular plants have two types of arrangement of xylem vascular bundles during…

Q: What are the four maingroups into which the study ofthe plants is divided?

A: The scientific study of a wide variety of organisms to differentiate them based on their features is…

Q: When did plants first emerge? What kinds of fossils were found to give us some ideas about the…

A: The evolutionary evidences of plants are recorded on the basis of fossil preserved in lowland or…

Q: Plants probably descended from a group of green algae called (a) rhyniophytes (b) Calamites (c)…

A: The correct answer is (d) Charophytes

Q: Explain the trait that defines land plants as a distinct lineage.

A: The organisms of the kingdom plantae are very diverse and are classified into several groups based…

Q: List the major events in the evolutionary history of plants.

A: Introduction  Life originated on earth around 4 billion years ago in the ocean. However, it was just…

Q: Explain the evolutionary changes in plant reproductionthat adapted plants to increasingly dry…

A: The process of evolution in plants enables them to survive during many extreme conditions. Plants…

Q: What characteristics do all land plants have in common?

A: The Embryophyta are informally referred to as land plants as a result of they live primarily in…

Q: Explain when land plants evolved and the earliest evidence forthese plants.

A: Plants are eukaryotic organisms that prepare their own food. Based on the location, they are…

Q: Why are Bryophytes regarded as "the amphibians of plant kingdom"?

A: Amphibians can be found on both land and water; however, during the breeding season, they must come…

Q: Did woody plants evolve more than once?

A: Plants are the multicellular organisms that carry out photosynthesis to convert inorganic compounds…

Q: What are vascular plants with seeds and fruits called?

A: The plants are multicellular eukaryotes that belong to Plantae kingdom. The plants are…

Q: How might Bryophytes and Lycophytes (“true” mosses and spikemosses) have contributed to the…

A: Bryophytes and lycophytes have led to the evolution of flowering plants and other land plants. There…

Q: What is the correct order of appearance in the fossil record, starting with the earliest: flowering…

A: Fossils are the remains of living organisms that was found after the organism was buried properly.…

Q: Among the characters and character states derivedfrom plants, why would you consider that…

A: In botany character state of a plant is defined as the taxa and the outer-group which are…

Q: What are reasons for dominance of vascular plants?

A: Vascular plants possess conducting tissues: xylem and phloem. Xylem helps in the transportation of…

Q: What is the evolutionaryimportance of the emergenceof seeds in the plant kingdom?

A: Seeds are the reproductive structures of a plant. After fertilization the ovary becomes the fruit…

Q: In the vascular bundles of flowering plants, protoxylem is closest to the center of the stem, and…

A: The various land vascular plants have two types of arrangement of xylem vascular bundles during…

Q: Why bryophytes are amphibians of plant kingdom?

A: Bryophytes are the non-vascular small plants like hornworts, mosses, and liverworts. These plants do…

Q: What phylum of flowering plants was used to test transpiration rate?

A: Transpiration is a physiological process in plants by which the water absorbed by the roots, is…

Q: What is the evolutionary importance of the emergence of seeds in the plant kingdom?

A: Introduction In this question we have to discuss about the importance of the emergence of seeds in…

Q: Draw a phylogenetic tree illustrating our current understanding ofplant phylogeny; label the common…

A: Current plant phylogeny states that all land plants are originated from common ancestral green…

Q: What features not present in seedless plants have contributed to the enormous success of seed plants…

A: The seedless plants are algae, bryophyte and pteridophytes.  The seed bearing plants are gymnosperm…

Q: Discuss the features that distinguish seedless vascular plants from algae and bryophytes.

A: Introduction Club mosses are the most basic seedless vascular plants, followed by whisk ferns, which…

Q: Name and briefly describe the two phyla of seedless vascular plants.

A: Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Include specialised supporting & water-conducting tissue termed…

Q: what % of all extant plants have vascular tissue?

A: The vascular plants, or tracheophytes, are the dominant and most conspicuous group of land plants.…

Q: What trait(s) allowed vascular plants to grow tall, and why mightincreased height have been…

A: Seedless vascular plants are the plants that belong to the group of pteridophytes. These members…

Q: List the key derived traits found in monilophytes andseed plants, but not in lycophytes.

A: Vascular plants are the plants that contain the vascular system (xylem and phloem) that is involved…

Q: Describe the key differences and similarities in the sporophytes of vascular land plants in…

A: These plants can develop into tree-like structures because their vascular tissues have the capacity…

Evolutionary lineages

An evolutionary lineage is a series of populations of organisms that descend from a common ancestor. Each species in the lineage is the direct consequence of evolutionary change from a common ancestor. A phylogenetic tree is generally used to display lineages visually. Lineages are components of the phylogenetic tree of life. Molecular systematics procedures are widely used to predict lineages.