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Which is an innovation of gymnosperms?
Gymnosperms are the first seed plants.
Gymnosperms are the first flowering plants.
Gymnosperms are the first vascular plants.
Gymnosperms are the first spore-bearing plants.

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Gymnosperms are the first seed plants.

Explanation: gymnosperms evolved seeds (and pollen, heterospory) — "naked" seeds not enclosed in an ovary. They are not flowering plants (those are angiosperms), and vascular and spore-bearing plants appeared earlier in plant evolution.