On a field trip,a student in a marine biology class collects an organism that has differentiated organs,cell walls of cellulose,and chloroplasts with chlorophyll a.Based on this description,the organism could be a brown alga,a red alga,a green alga,a charophyte recently washed into the ocean from a freshwater or brackish water source,or a land plant washed into the ocean.The presence of which of the following features would definitively identify this organism as a land plant?

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The presence of embryos would definitively identify this organism as a land plant, as land plants are the only organisms that produce embryos during reproduction. None of the other features listed are unique to land plants.

On a Field Trip,a Student in a Marine Biology Class