Evolution Crossword Challenge

4. Two cladograms with the same number of changes/steps are equally….
6. A group in which all members share a common ancestor
8. Resemblance due to shared evolutionary pressures, not shared ancestry.
11. Plants are most often referred to at this taxonomic level
12. An asexual propagule produced by liverworts and some mosses
13. these algae are the most complex, and contain a diversity of pigments allowing photosynthesis at different depths in water

1. a green alga which share some characteristics with true plants
2. The first photosynthetic organisms arose by the engulfment of a photosynthetic prokaryote. Once engulfed, this prokaryote then became an…. Which is also part of the name of the theory which explains this evolutionary event.
3. A key difference between algae and plants involves reproductive structures. Reproductive cells of true plants are enclosed in a ….. compartment.
5. Non-vascular plants do not have true roots, they have…which anchor them to the ground
7. when mature, the …. of the moss dehisces to release spores
8. The life stage of Bryophytes that we are most familiar with in nature, has this genetic complement
9. Photosynthetic eukaryotes, other than plants
10. algal body plan which arises from cell division in a single plane