The history of life has been punctuated by several mass extinctions. For example, the impact of a meteorite may have wiped out most of the dinosaurs and many forms of marine life at the end of the Cretaceous period. Fossils indicate that plants were less severely affected by this mass extinction. What adaptations may have enabled plants to withstand this disaster better than animals?

Select all that apply.
- heterospory
- presence of spores
- capacity for photosynthesis
- alternation of generations
- presence of vascular tissues
- presence of seeds