Based on the tree shown above, the presence of complex, multicellular fruiting bodies in Basidiomycete and Ascomycete lineages is an example of:

A. convergent evolution.
B. a homologous trait.
C. a synapomorphy uniting basidiomycetes
and ascomycetes as sister taxa.
D. a parsimonious trait.
E. an ancestral character state.


A

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