@thegalacticgal: Trees don’t exist, scientifically speaking. 🧐🌲 Let’s dive into this further ⬇️ 🐈Imagine you have a bunch of animals like cats, dogs, and horses. They’re all different, right? Now, what if someone decided to call all of them “big things with legs”? It’s not totally wrong, but it’s not very scientific, because cats, dogs, and horses are each their own thing with different features and families. 🌲The same goes for trees. We call a bunch of different plants “trees” because they look similar—they’re tall, have a trunk and roots, and have branches and leaves. But these plants actually come from all sorts of different plant families. They just happen to grow in a way that looks “tree-like” to us. 🦀 This is kind of like crabs. Did you know that crabs evolved independently a bunch of different times? There’s this weird phenomenon called “carcinization” where different animals ended up looking like crabs even though they didn’t come from the same crabby ancestor. Nature really liked the crab design and kept trying it out over and over again. 💡 When different species evolve similar traits or features independently of each other, it’s called convergent evolution. Sometimes certain metas just really thrive in nature! #science #stem #learn #trees

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