Answer:
High stomatal conductance
Explanation:
Plants with a high photosynthetic capacity have a high stomatal conductance, in the absence of environmental stress (Reich et al., 1999, 1997). This enables plants with a high photosynthetic capacity to gain carbon rapidly, at the cost of high rates of water loss.
Your answer would be B.
Because, all the other answers could result in a decrease of the population of the specie (but it wouldn't be cyclic).
Answer:
trend toward a sporophyte-dominated life cycle
the trend toward larger gametophytes
Explanation:
<em>The major trend in the evolution of land plants is the domination of the sporophytic phase in the life cycle and alternation of generation. It also moves towards a larger gametophytes</em>
In lower plants, the gameophyte phase was dominant in the life cycle while in bryophyte, both gametophyte and sporophyte phase are co-dependent.
The sporophyte phase is the diploid phase while the gametophyte phase is the haploid phase.
Also, the gameotyptic stages are quite microscopic (usually in the form of spores) in lower plants while they become bigger in land plants (in the form of ovary and pollen) although with fewer cells.
