How are the archaeplastids similar to and different from the plants?

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Biologists have long thought that the archaeplastids and plants are closely related. Plants are multicellular, eukaryotic, photosynthetic autotrophs. The archaeplastids include single-celled, filamentous, colonial, and multicellular forms. Both plants and archaeplastids have chlorophylls a and b and cells walls that contain cellulose. They both store their carbohydrate as starch. The charophytes of the archaeplastids are thought to be more closely related to plants than the chlorophytes.

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