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11th Edition
ISBN: 9781337392938
Author: Eldra Solomon, Charles Martin, Diana W. Martin, Linda R. Berg
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 27.1, Problem 3C
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To determine: The evidence which is in favor of the hypothesis that “plants descended from a group of green algae known as charophytes”.
Introduction: It has been hypothesized that plants have descended from a group of green algae called charophytes. Charophytes are also called stoneworts and belong to a group of freshwater algae. These charophytes are considered as most close relatives of modern land plants. Also, green algae and plants resemble each other in a variety of ways such as both groups are photosynthetic and possess chlorophyll a pigments in their chloroplast.
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Biology (MindTap Course List)
Ch. 27.1 - Discuss some environmental challenges of living on...Ch. 27.1 - Name the green algal group from which plants are...Ch. 27.1 - Prob. 1CCh. 27.1 - Prob. 2CCh. 27.1 - Prob. 3CCh. 27.1 - Prob. 4CCh. 27.2 - Summarize the features that distinguish bryophytes...Ch. 27.2 - Name and briefly describe the three phyla of...Ch. 27.2 - Describe the life cycle of mosses and compare...Ch. 27.2 - Prob. 1C
Ch. 27.2 - How are mosses, liverworts, and hornworts similar?...Ch. 27.3 - Discuss the features that distinguish seedless...Ch. 27.3 - Name and briefly describe the two phyla of...Ch. 27.3 - Describe the life cycle of ferns and compare their...Ch. 27.3 - Compare the generalized life cycles of homosporous...Ch. 27.3 - Prob. 1CCh. 27.3 - Prob. 2CCh. 27.3 - Which of the following are parts of the sporophyte...Ch. 27.3 - Why are whisk ferns and horsetails now classified...Ch. 27.3 - How does heterospory modify the plant life cycle?Ch. 27 - Plants probably descended from a group of green...Ch. 27 - Which of the following is not a characteristic of...Ch. 27 - In plant life cycles, (a) the first products of...Ch. 27 - The bryophytes (a) include mosses, liverworts, and...Ch. 27 - The waxy layer that covers aerial parts of plants...Ch. 27 - Prob. 6TYUCh. 27 - Prob. 7TYUCh. 27 - Know and Comprehend 8. The green,...Ch. 27 - Prob. 9TYUCh. 27 - Know and Comprehend 10. These plants have...Ch. 27 - Know and Comprehend 11. These plants have hollow,...Ch. 27 - Know and Comprehend 12. Which of the following...Ch. 27 - Apply and Analyze 13. VISUALIZE Draw a simple...Ch. 27 - Evaluate and Synthesize 14. EVOLUTION LINK How may...Ch. 27 - Evaluate and Synthesize 15. INTERPRET DATA...Ch. 27 - Evaluate and Synthesize 16. EVOLUTION LINK Where...
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