Students inventoried the species of trees in a patch of forest near their school. They counted 55 trees and identified 12 differ
ent species of trees. Most of the 55 individual trees were either red oaks or the scarlet oaks; other species were represented by less than 3 individuals each. They then inventoried a patch of forest of equal size in a nearby national forest and found 80 trees representing 28 species of trees, and there were 2 - 4 individual trees for each species in the patch. Compared to the forest near the school, the national forest has
Nature is genes. Nurture is how someone or something is grown/ raised. Scientists believe both are important, so they do not choose one over the other.
