Recent Studies on the Evolutionary Divergence of Seed Plants from Seedless

Multiple Choice

Recent studies on the evolutionary divergence of seed plants from seedless vascular plants used the genome of a ____, a lycophyte, as a comparison for genomes of the more derived land plants.

A) numerous, large apical cells on the edges of their fronds
B) single, large apical cell on the tip of their fronds
C) single, large apical cell at the tip of their apical meristems
D) numerous, small apical cells at the base of their apical meristems
E) single, small apical cell at the base of their apical meristems