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The reason biologists believe that green algae and land plants, both members of the supergroup archaeplastida, are related is because both of them possess chlorophyll a & b as well as cell walls made of starch.

a. True
b. False

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The green algae and land plants both are photosynthetic in nature and prepare their own food. They have photosynthetic pigments chlorophyll a and b. These also have cell walls that contain starch in them. Due to all these similarities, green algae and land plants are kept together in the subgroup Archaeplastida.
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