Question

question 2
which of the following lists plant terrestrial adaptations from earliest to most recent?
a vascular, seeds, nonvascular, and flowers
b vascular, seeds, flowers, and cones
c nonvascular, seeds, vascular, and flowers
d nonvascular, vascular, seeds, and flowers
e vascular, seeds, flowers, and nonvascular

Explanation:

• Nonvascular plants (like mosses) were among the first land plants.
• Vascular plants (with xylem and phloem) evolved after nonvascular plants.
• Seed - bearing plants (gymnosperms with seeds) evolved after vascular non - seed - bearing plants (like ferns).
• Flowering plants (angiosperms) are a more recent evolutionary development compared to seed - bearing non - flowering plants (gymnosperms).

Answer:

D. nonvascular, vascular, seeds, and flowers