How do trees survive the extreme winter colds in some zones of the world? Do they act like bears and go to sleep too until the season ends?
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If you fill a glass bottle full of water, cap it and put it out in freezing temperatures, the water will freeze, expand and break the bottle. If you dump a bunch of sugar in the water before you cap it, the water will not freeze. The bottle will not break. In this case the bottle represents cells in the tree. The liquid that flows through them is the sugar water
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