Plants and Evolution

What do scientists think Plants evolved from?

• Lichens

• Moss

• Algae

• Trees

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In what way do mosses reproduce?

• Sexually

• Asexually

• Pollen

• Spores

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What do algae and plants have in common

• They’re both always green

• They both have similar chloroplast organelles

• They both breathe nitrogen

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What layer of the ocean do algae live in?

• The Sunlight Zone

• The Twilight Zone

• The Midnight Zone

• The Abyss Zone

• The Trench Zone

Which are older: Plants or Humans?

• Humans

• Plants

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Were plants more likely to mutate in early earth or in present time?

• Present Time

• Bothe are equal

• Early Earth

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What is the most important evolutionary adaptation of a plant?

• The cell

• The roots

• The vascular tissue

• The stem

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Which vascular tissue distributes glucose from photosynthesis

• Xylem

• Phloem

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Which vascular tissue delivers water to leaves so the plant can make photosynthesis

• Xylem

• Phloem

Plants Evolved to have _____ sets of DNA. This happened because if one set mutates, they have spare(s)

• five

• Four

• Three

• Two