Chapter 27 - Plants without Seeds: From Water to Land - 27.1 - Primary Endosymbiosis Produced the First Photosynthetic Eukaryotes - 27.1 Recap - Learning Outcomes - Page 577: 4

Both clades of green algae, coleochaetophytes and stoneworts, retain their eggs in the parental organism like land plants do. Phylogenetic analysis of the gene sequences of the green algae reinforced the notion that stoneworts are a sister group to land plants and that these two algal groups are the closest relatives to land plants.

Both clades of green algae, coleochaetophytes and stoneworts, retain their eggs in the parental organism like land plants do. Phylogenetic analysis of the gene sequences of the green algae reinforced the notion that stoneworts are a sister group to land plants and that these two algal groups are the closest relatives to land plants.