What determines where a tree grows its branches, and what their shape will be? Is it genetically predetermined or are there other factors at play?

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What determines where a tree grows its branches, and what their shape will be? Is it genetically predetermined or are there other factors at play?

In: Biology

Answer 1

also, remembering my high school biology, trees, like plants are positively phototropic – they grow toward sunlight, and negatively geotrophic (they grow away from the pull of gravity).