JADS Hypothesis

The two wind-pollinated plants, although one is a gymnosperm and the other is an angiosperm, will be more closely related than the wind-pollinated angiosperm and an insect-pollinated angiosperm.

 This makes sense because over millennia of evolution, pollen particles have not changed much; since it does not change as rapidly as other components, it would be conceivable that plants with the same type of pollen would also be close in the evolutionary tree. Millet and Larch are both wind-pollinated, so even though they differ between being angiosperms and gymnosperms respectively, they will have a common ancestor before they both share one with a rose.

Our hypothesis was not supported, see the trees for further information.