The Prunus Family. Â· by admin Â· in Mast Producing Trees. The Prunus family is a large, diverse family of trees and shrubs native to North America and Eurasia. It is related to the rose family and includes plums, cherries, apricots, peaches, and almonds.
Not just in biology! From the dictionary: Emergent properties-arising and existing only as a phenomenon of independent parts working together, and not predictable on the basis of their properties.n example in Biology is the assembly of amino acids into a protein: an amino acid, by itself, cannot perform the functions of an enzyme, but if you put the right ones together in the correct order, they become an enzyme.
But the next level of inquiry is what is the origin of the emergent properties of the Universe, the properties that become the mass of the Universe, its age, its physical constants, etc. The answer appears to be that these properties have their origin as the fluctuations of the quantum vacuum. The properties of the Universe come from `nothing', where nothing is the quantum vacuum, which is a very different kind of nothing. If we examine a piece of `empty' space we see it is not truly empty, it is filled with spacetime, for example. Spacetime has curvature and structure, and obeys the laws of quantum physics.