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?

The Kingdom Plantae first appeared about 410 million years ago when green algae transitioned from water to land. The differences between land and sea posed a challenge to early colonizing species, which prompted many new adaptations. These adaptations have resulted in the wide variety of plant forms observed today.

There are an estimated 250,000 species, with the greatest diversity in the moist tropics.