Fossil Fungi Date Back to the Origin and Early Evolution

question 66

Multiple Choice

Fossil fungi date back to the origin and early evolution of plants. What combination of environmental and morphological change is similar in the evolution of both fungi and plants?

• A) presence of "coal forests" and change in mode of nutrition
• B) periods of drought and presence of filamentous body shape
• C) predominance in swamps and presence of cellulose in cell walls
• D) colonization of land and loss of flagellated cells
• E) continental drift and mode of spore dispersal