Given That Early Land Plants Most Likely Share a Common

question 48

Multiple Choice

Given that early land plants most likely share a common ancestor with green algae, the earliest land plants most likely belonged to which of the following categories?

• A) nonvascular plants that grew leafless, photosynthetic shoots
• B) nonvascular plants with well-developed diploid bodies
• C) vascular plants with well-defined root systems
• D) nonvascular plants with well-developed leaves

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Attitude-Behavior Relationship

The connection between an individual's beliefs or feelings towards an object, person, or situation, and how they subsequently behave.

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