The statement that best describes gymnosperm would be a vascular plant that uses pollen to produce seeds that are not enclosed in protective fruits.
Gymnosperms are a group of plants with the following characteristics:
- They have vascular tissues such as xylem and phloem for conducting water and nutrients from the soil and for distributing manufactured food around the plant respectively.
- They usually grow as perennial trees or woody shrubs.
- They are non-spore forming and non-flowering, but seed producing.
- Ovules are naked, and so also are the seeds. The male gametophyte is pollen and pollination is by wind.
- They undergo alternation of generation.
Hence, the option that concisely described gymnosperm is D. That is, they are a vascular plant that uses pollen to produce seeds that are not enclosed in protective fruits.
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