A major trend in land plant evolution is - C) the trend toward a sporophyte-dominated life cycle.
The evolution of land plants from their freshwater ancestors involved many major innovations, most of which are adaptations to survival in habitat change.
- Chlorophyta is a green alga considered as the ancestors of land plants, have a dominant gametophyte and greatly reduced sporophyte.
- bryophytes considered as a link between algae and land plants developed the gametophyte-dominant phase of the life cycle
- vascular plants have developed the sporophyte-dominant phase
- A major trend in plant evolution has been the increasing dominance of the sporophyte.
Thus, a major trend in land plant evolution is - C) the trend toward a sporophyte-dominated life cycle.
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