If you look carefully at a tree, you will observe that small branches generally stick out at almost right angles from big ones and big branches stick out at smaller angles from each other. Any idea why?

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Put quite simply - Light - trees are heliotropic that is they grow towards the light - the bigger branches had less obstruction to the light as they were growing and therefore could grow at a lesser angle to the main stem. Nov 19 02, 8:23 PM

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