As a Botanist Working for a Field Museum,you Spend Many

question 16

Multiple Choice

As a botanist working for a field museum,you spend many hours in the field looking for new species.On a recent trip you may have discovered a new plant species.Your observations of the new plant include small leaves with a single,unbranched vein and roots that seem to be simple extensions of the stem.Your new plant species is probably a(n) :

• A)Gnetophyte
• B)Lycophyte
• C)Angiosperm
• D)Liverwort
• E)Fern

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