If researchers found that charophyte algae lack certain traits that land plants have,can we conclude that charophytes are not the closest relatives of land plants?

A)No; we can hypothesize that these traits have just skipped a generation.
B)No; we can hypothesize that these traits are derived traits of land plants.
C)Yes; we can hypothesize that if all traits are not found in both groups, then the two groups are distantly related.
D)Yes; if the traits have been lost during the course of evolution, then the two groups cannot be closely related.