According to the phylogeny presented in this chapter, which protists are in the same eukaryotic supergroup as plants? a. green algae b. dinoflagellates c. red algae d. both A and C

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Hello everyone and welcome to today's video stating according to philo genetic studies, the closest relative to plans is or given groups of organisms such as Dino flagellate screen. Augie and rocky. So let's go over them so we can identify it. First of all, then flagellating are these uni cellular you carry? It's that are able to undergo photosynthesis. And so although they're very similar to plants in terms of its characteristics, dina flagellating is not as related to plants as green augie and read Augie because green auggie and Auggie like plants are multicellular. You carry, its are able to undergo photosynthesis. So they are very similar to plants. So we're going to cancel out and fragile it and concentrate on green augie and read augie. Let's take a look at villa ginny involving read augie, green augie and plants and see their evolutionary history so that we can understand that better. So we can see that these three groups formed part of a bigger group called RKO Places to This bigger group contains all three red algae, green algae and plants. So let's take a look at the notes in this biologic belonging to the most recent common ancestor between red algae and plants. Doggy is located all the way over here and as we can see, the most recent common ancestor between algae and plants is going to be all the way back here at the beginning of the file again. On the other hand, the most recent common ancestor between plants and green Augie is going to be located very recently in the file. A genie here because of this. green augie are the closest relative of plants, because their most recent common ancestor occurred so recently, and we're going to highlight it as being our final answer. So thank you very much for sticking around until the end of this video, and I really hope to see you on the next one.