Where lies the brain of a tree?

Question

as we know trees have life in them.

Answer 1

in its roots

Answer 2

Trees don't have brains as they have no nervous system. They cannot think. As you say, they are alive. They can react- for example by bending towards light, touch etc. These are called tropisms, but they don't need a brain for that.

Answer 3

Uh... Plants don't really have any intelligent thought, meaning that they cannot function past what their DNA states they must do to survive.

They can only live, reproduce, and die. They have no thoughts or personal convictions.

Answer 4

Plants neither have brains nor a nervous system.

Answer 5

Is a brain a prerequisite for a living organism? Evidently not.

Answer 6

Many of the above answers are correct, trees have no brain or nervous system, even though they are alive and can react to stimuli (hot, cold, dry, wet, light, dark, up, down, broken limbs, even damage caused to nearby plants according to some studies.) But they can't think and make decisions for themselves.  Even moving plants like a Venus Flytrap.

Some simple ocean dwelling animals have nervous syetems, and actively look for food, but they don't have brains either (some sponges I think.)

My answer would be that the thing that helps the plant survive, while not actually a brain, would be its DNA.  What genes it inherits from the parent plants will influence just how it reacts to the stimuli around it.  Now and then there are mutations and a plant will look or act differently.  Most are not beneficial to the plant, but some help it, then the trait is passed to its seedlings.  It is all automatic, even though it may resemble the thinking actions of a higher organism.

On that note, insects are higher organisms, but they can't think much either. they have brains but they mostly act in pre-set ways according to their genetics.

Answer 7

Plants do not have brains, nor nervous systems.  They are alive nonetheless, and their cells perform many of the same functions as ours.

Answer 8

in the trunk

Answer 9

it's in the hands of those who care about it and actually take care of it...if flowers bloom when people talk to their plants, trees may as well give back the goodness it has taken from other creatures on earth... :-)