The cladogram identifies the classification of the four major groups of plants, and it shows the evolutionary relationships among the groups
Cone-bearing
Flowering plants
plants
Mosses
Ferns
Flowers
Seeds
Vascular
.L. IS
Ancestor Embryo tissues
of all plants
Herschel wants to describe the most recent common ancestor of cone-bearing plants and flowering plants. Which description is most accurate?
O A The ancestor had seeds and flowers, because these traits are derived characters for either the clade of cone-bearing plants or the
clade of flowering plants.
B. The ancestor had seeds but not flowers, because only seeds are a derived character for the clade of cone-bearing plants and flowering
plants
OC. The ancestor lacked both seeds and flowers, because these traits evolved later in the evolutionary lineages of cone-bearing plants and
flowering plants
OD. The ancestor had flowers but not seeds, because flowers evolved before seeds in the evolutionary lineage of flowering plants.