Dicotyledons are considered more primitive or more advanced compared to Monocotyledons?
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Correct answer: More primitive, as Monocots evolved later from dicots
Molecular and fossil evidence suggest that Monocots are a monophyletic group that diverged from ancestral dicot-like angiosperms. Thus, the dicotyledonous body plan is considered more basal in angiosperm evolution.
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