Closest green algae relative to land plants that share the ancestral derived traits of rings of cellulose-synthesizing complexes, peroxisome enzymes, structure of flagellated sperm, and formation of a phragmoplast
A durable polymer that prevents exposed charophyte zygotes from drying out and is also found in plant spore walls
A lifecycle in which there are both a multicellular diploid form, the sporophyte, and a multicellular haploid form, the gametophyte; characteristic of plants and some algae
In organisms that have alternation of generations (plants and some algae), the multicellular haploid form that produces haploid gametes by mitosis
In organisms that have alternation of generations (plants and some algae), the multicellular diploid form that results from the union of gametes
Alternate name for land plants that refers to their shared derived trait of multicellular, dependent embryos
