What we refer to as the "green plants" includes the green algae and four groups of land plants (the nonvascular plants, seedless vascular plants, gymnosperms, and angiosperms).
Which of the following characteristics are shared by all green plants? Choose all that apply.
Note: For this and the next few questions, remember that when we talk about features that are shared by all plants of a particular group, we're speaking generally. There may be a few species in there that have lost or modified one of the characteristics so that it is no longer present, and that's OK. The characteristic is still a characteristic of the group of plants as a whole. For example, the parasitic plant dodder has lost the ability to photosynthesize, but we would still say that plants - as a group - are photosynthetic and photoautotrophs.
- cuticle
- flowers
- sporophyte-dominant life cycle
- double fertilization
- alternation of generations
- heterospory
- seeds
- pollen
- stomates
- chlorophyll a and b and β-carotene
- fruits
- vascular tissue
- sporopollenin