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.
Thus, heredity and evolution, two hallmarks of life, are not limited to DNA and RNA but are likely to be emergent properties of polymers capable of information storage, the researchers write.