Fossils of plants found in deeper geologic layers do not show vascular tissues, while fossils in shallower geologic layers include some specimens with and some without vascular tissues. Thus, vascular tissue in plants is considered a ____ character.
a. ancestral
b. homoplasious
c. primitive
d. derived
e. physiologically essential
ANSWER: d
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