Study Guide for Campbell Biology
11th Edition
ISBN: 9780134443775
Author: Lisa A. Urry, Michael L. Cain, Steven A. Wasserman, Peter V. Minorsky, Jane B. Reece, Martha R. Taylor, Michael A. Pollock
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Chapter 29, Problem 15TYK
If you could take a time machine back to the Carboniferous period, which of the following would you most likely encounter?
- a. creeping mats of low-growing
bryophytes - b. fields of tall grasses swaying in the wind
- c. swampy forests dominated by tree lycophytes, horsetails, and ferns
- d. huge forests of naked-seed trees filling the air with pollen
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