While conducting a survey of biodiversity in Guam, you discover a rare plant with large, conspicuous conelike reproductive structures that are red in color. Taking a cross-section of an aboveground root, you notice a conspicuous blue-green ring just beneath the root surface. This plant is most likely a

A. monocot.
B. eudicot.
C. Ginkgo.
D. cycad.
E. conifer.


D. cycad.

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