Lecture 8 Flashcards
(7 cards)
1
Q
What are Embryophytes?
A
Land plants
2
Q
What group are Land Plants most closely related to?
A
Charophyceae
3
Q
What is Monophyletic?
A
- strongly supported by morphological and molecular data
- Land plants
4
Q
What is the closest relative to all living Land Plants? What class is it within?
A
-Charales: an order of freshwater green algae within the class Charophyceae- commonly called Stonewarts
5
Q
What is likely to be the sister group to land plants?
A
Charales
6
Q
When did major groups of land plants originate?
A
Major radiation- late Silurian- early Devonian (about 400 m.y.)
7
Q
When did spores from embryophytes (land plants) appear?
A
Around mid-Ordovician (about 465 Ma)
