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Root, in botany, that part of a vascular plant normally underground. Its primary functions are anchorage of the plant, absorption of water and dissolved minerals and conduction of these to the stem, and storage of reserve foods. The root differs from the stem mainly by lacking leaf scars and buds, having a root cap, and having branches that originate from internal tissue rather than from buds.
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Dog is more closely related to a red fox than a house cat according to a taxonomy level.
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- Dog, red fox, house cat is in the same kingdom Animalia, same phylum Chordata, same class Mammalia, same order Carnivora but the family of red fox and the gad is same i.e. Canidae but the family of the house cat is Felidae.
- The red fox and dog have more taxon in common. The house cat diverges at the family level.
The Farallon plate was forced under north America by slow geological movement, this process is called subduction.