The emergence of land plants correlated with the near ____ of the genes that bryophytes inherited from a(n)____

ancestor.



a. doubling; liverwort
b. doubling; algal
c. tripling; liverwort
d. tripling; algal
e. quadrupling; algal


ANSWER: b

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