Question

A scientist has discovered a new plant species in the Amazon rainforest. She tells her fellow scientists that the plant she has found produces a cone. What might they say about how this plant is different from an angiosperm?
Its seeds have one or two cotyledons.
Its stems' vascular bundles are scattered.
It does not depend on insect pollination.
It is a seeded vascular plant.

Answer 1

Correct choice: It does not depend on insect pollination.

Reason: Cone-bearing plants are gymnosperms. Unlike most angiosperms (flowering plants), gymnosperms typically have exposed seeds on cones and are primarily wind-pollinated rather than insect-pollinated. The other options are incorrect as distinguishing features: "one or two cotyledons" and "scattered vascular bundles" describe angiosperm groups (monocots/dicots), and "seeded vascular plant" applies to both gymnosperms and angiosperms.