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Prepare a table that lists the features that distinguish bryophytes from green algae and from other
  plants. What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

The oldest known megafossils of early vascular plants may be characterized as:
  a. possessing dichotomously branched stems with leaves.
  b. possessing dichotomously branched stems without leaves or roots.
  c. possessing erect stems with megaphylls.
  d. possessing roots but lacking sporangia.
  e. lacking roots but possessing megaphylls.

Answer to q. 1

Distinguishing features shared by plants include 1) multicellular embryos, 2) multicellular gametangia,
3) a waxy cuticle, 4) stomata, 5), a clearly defined alternation of generations, and 6) producing spores
only by meiosis instead of by either meiosis or mitosis.

Answer to q. 2

B

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