Plants have adapted to dry land by evolving all of the following except association with mycorrhizae to improve mineral uptake

a. secreting a waxy coating to prevent water loss.
b. forms of chlorophyll more efficient at capturing light.
c. tissues to conduct water through the plant.
d. structures to protect reproductive cells and embryos.


C; Plants still use the same chlorophylls that are found in green algae, and there seems to have been no substantial change in these during the adaptation to land. All the other choices list important adaptations.

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a. true b. false

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