Question

Create a phylogenetic tree of the major groups of plants using green algae as the outgroup. You should include angiosperms, gymnosperms, ferns and their allies, and bryophytes making sure to provide characters on the tree indicating why lineages separated where they did.

Answer 1

In this case, we have the major groups of plants, many characters have defined the appearance of each group however there are some traits that are too important and those are mentioned here.

In the base is algae, when the retention of the Zygote occurs plants started to evolve when plants started to evolve in earth bryophyte came to be, however they do not possess a proper vascular system, this occurred with pteridophytes (ferns and so forth), nonetheless still produced spores, angiosperms reduced gametes and pollen came as innovation, however, they produced strobili, so the innovation of angiosperms were flowers.