Question

Scientists think that plants evolved directly from ____. (1 point)

Answer 1

Green algae - they already share some prominent characteristics (e.g., chlorophyll, chloroplasts, etc).

To be specific, the answer would by Charophytes. Land plants and the charophytes share specific characteristics hinting at their close relationship...among these, you have that they both have rossette-shaped cellulose synthesizing complexes, they both have the golgi apparatus lay down a phragmoplast during cell division, their peroxisomes both have similar enzymes, etc.