Biology (MindTap Course List)
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Author: Eldra Solomon, Charles Martin, Diana W. Martin, Linda R. Berg
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 21.3, Problem 3C
What is the correct order of appearance in the fossil record, starting with the earliest: flowering plants, ferns, gymnosperms?
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Biology (MindTap Course List)
Ch. 21.1 - Describe the conditions that scientists think...Ch. 21.1 - Compare the prebiotic soup hypothesis with the...Ch. 21.1 - Prob. 1CCh. 21.1 - How does the ironsulfur world hypothesis differ...Ch. 21.2 - Outline the major steps hypothesized to have...Ch. 21.2 - Explain how the evolution of photosynthetic...Ch. 21.2 - Prob. 5LOCh. 21.2 - Prob. 1CCh. 21.2 - Prob. 2CCh. 21.2 - VISUALIZE Draw a simple sketch illustrating the...
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- The earliest fossils clearly recognizable as parts of flowering plants are _____________________ __________________ in rocks more than ______________ million years old.arrow_forwardAccording to the cladogram in Figure 27-5, which plants evolved first: nonvascular bryophytes, seedless vascular plants, or seed plants?arrow_forwardIf Rhynia or its contemporaries were the ancestors to the ferns, how did the gametophytes and sporophytes change during evolution?arrow_forward
- When did plants first emerge? What kinds of fossils were found to give us some ideas about the timeline? What group of green algae is most closely related to plants? How do we know?arrow_forwardWhat key traits distinguish each group from the other listed in the comparison? A) All land plants from green algae? B) Pteridophyta (ferns) from Bryophyta (mosses)? C) Angiosperms from ferns?arrow_forwardIn the vascular bundles of flowering plants, protoxylem is closest to the center of the stem, and metaxylem is farther out. Is this an endarch or an exarch arrangement? Seed plants always have just this one arrangement, but what about the early vascular plants? Were they endarch or exarch, or did both types occur originally?arrow_forward
- List the signiicant events in the evolution of land plants.arrow_forwardusing the geologic time scale, what era and period did the first flowering plants appear?arrow_forwardIf the stomata of bryophytes and of vascular plants are not an example of convergent evolution, what is an alternative explanation for their appearance in these groups?arrow_forward
- Draw a phylogenetic tree illustrating our current understanding ofplant phylogeny; label the common ancestor of plants and the originsof multicellular gametangia, vascular tissue, and seeds.arrow_forwardCan we infer traits of the angiosperm common ancestor from traits found in early fossil angiosperms?arrow_forwardThis figure identifies lineages as plants, non-vascular plants, vascular plants, seedless vascular plants, and seed plants. Which of these categories are paraphyletic and which are monophyletic?arrow_forward
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