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  2. If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it ...

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    is posed along with many other questions to quiz readers on the contents of the chapter, and as such, is posed from a purely physical point of view. [ 7 ] While physicists and good friends Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr were equally instrumental in founding quantum mechanics , the two had very different views on what quantum mechanics said ...

  3. List of tree genera - Wikipedia

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    About 10 Monocotyledon families include trees. [1] [2] Asparagaceae (Asparagus family) Cordyline, Cabbage tree etc. Dracaena, Dragon tree; Yucca, Joshua tree etc. Arecaceae (Palmae) (Palm family) Areca, Areca; Cocos nucifera, Coconut; Phoenix, Date Palm etc. Trachycarpus, Chusan Palm etc. Poaceae (grass family) Bamboos, Poaceae subfamily ...

  4. Tree - Wikipedia

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    Trees are also typically defined by height, [4] with smaller plants from 0.5 to 10 m (1.6 to 32.8 ft) being called shrubs, [5] so the minimum height of a tree is only loosely defined. [4] Large herbaceous plants such as papaya and bananas are trees in this broad sense. [2] [6]

  5. Betulaceae - Wikipedia

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    The Betulaceae are believed to have originated at the end of the Cretaceous period (about 70 million years ago) in central China.This region at the time would have had a Mediterranean climate due to the proximity of the Tethys Sea, which covered parts of present-day Tibet and Xinjiang into the early Tertiary period.

  6. Ceiba - Wikipedia

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    Ceiba is a genus of trees in the family Malvaceae, native to tropical and subtropical areas of the Americas (from Mexico and the Caribbean to northern Argentina) and tropical West Africa. [3] Some species can grow to 70 m (230 ft) tall or more, with a straight, largely branchless trunk that culminates in a huge, spreading canopy, and buttress ...

  7. List of gymnosperm families - Wikipedia

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    Gymnosperms are divided into 12 families of trees, shrubs and woody vines. [5] Sequoiadendron giganteum, the giant redwood, is the largest tree in the world, and Sequoia sempervirens, the coastal redwood, is the tallest. [6] Ginkgo trees tolerate urban pollutants well, and are often planted in and near cities. [7]

  8. A Flowering Tree: A Woman's Tale - Wikipedia

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    [1] Like most folktales from around the world, A Flowering Tree synthesizes two discrete elements: first, an impossible narrative (a girl turns into a tree; a prince marries a peasant), and second, mythic archetypes which resonate deeply with all of us, no matter what our beliefs. [ 2 ]

  9. Clade - Wikipedia

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    The science that tries to reconstruct phylogenetic trees and thus discover clades is called phylogenetics or cladistics, the latter term coined by Ernst Mayr (1965), derived from "clade". The results of phylogenetic/cladistic analyses are tree-shaped diagrams called cladograms ; they, and all their branches, are phylogenetic hypotheses.