Question 5

(Multiple Choice)

On a field trip,a student in a marine biology class collects an organism that has differentiated organs,cell walls of cellulose,and chloroplasts with chlorophyll a.Based on this description,the organism could be a brown alga,a red alga,a green alga,a charophyte recently washed into the ocean from a freshwater or brackish water source,or a land plant washed into the ocean.The presence of which of the following features would definitively identify this organism as a land plant?


A)alternation of generations
B)sporopollenin
C)rings of cellulose-synthesizing complexes
D)flagellated sperm
E)embryos

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