Refer to the figure.
Your roommate visits the botanical gardens over the weekend.When she returns, she excitedly shows you the photograph (shown) of a plant she has identified as an angiosperm.How do you best respond?
A) The fruit must be a simple fruit, like those found in cherries.
B) The venation in the leaves shows that this is a eudicot.
C) This is actually a gymnosperm. Even though that structure resembles a fruit, only angiosperms produce true fruits.
D) This must be one of the transitional species that bridged the evolution of angiosperms from gymnosperms.
E) This fruit is most likely dispersed by a larger animal, like a chipmunk or squirrel.
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