Of the following groups, which is though to have most recently shared a common ancestor with plants?

The organisms we call plants are assigned to a single clade; that is, a natural ... they have all evolved from a common ancestor more recent than any shared with ... We shall examine here a selection of the most prominent groups. ... but vascular plants with xylem and phloem running through their roots, stems, and leaves.

The earliest groups had just a few clusters of nerve cells. Today ... But in morerecently evolved plants, female gametes provide a ... Even though dolphins and sharks both have streamlined, fishlike ... Close relatives, descended from a very recent common ancestor, ... .. similar types of scales, shared only by birds and lizards.

Why do animals, plants, fungi, protists and bacteria look the way they do? ... 1) Organisms have a shared history—shared ancestry ... . The distribution of many species does not make sense, unless they shared a common ancestor. ... numerous independent lines of evidence, are thought to be the oldest group of organisms.

The history of the evolution of a species or group, especially in reference to ... that plants or animals of different species descended from common ancestors. ... Most phylogenies therefore are hypotheses and are based on indirect evidence. ... species have diverged since evolving from a common ancestor.

The latter four groups have been loosely termed the chromophyte algae because they ... The motile stage of most algae have two (or more) flagellae, but some ... are of questionable homology (character state shared through common ancestry) . ... closely related cyanobacteria in the common ancestor(s) of the chlorophytes,  ...

Despite the antiquity of a shared common ancestor of land plants and their ... We suspect that a major reason is that most studies have employed only ... . In the following sections, we present an overview of each of the major ... Recently, coccoid forms have been added to this group (Fawley et al., 2000⇓).

3) Which of the following statements about species, as defined by the biological ... . 19) Among known plant species, which of these have been the two most ... . D) A single clade (i.e., a group of species that share a common ancestor) can ... E) V and W shared a common ancestor more recently than any of the other species.