how did the first ever oak tree grow?because oak trees grow from acorns please someone help me to figure this?

Answer 1

Oak trees evolved during the Cretaceous period, around 130 million years ago - as did the Holly tree, incidentally. This was a time when plants first began to develop flowers, which are really just adapted leaves.

These plants would have also developed new types of seeds, in the case of the Oak these were acorns.

It is more than likely that changes in the late Jurassic/ early Cretaceous envirnoment caused these types of plants to evolve.

There is fossil evidence to support this. Have a look around the net for palaeobotany websites for more detailed information.

Answer 2

There was no such thing as "the first ever oak tree". Oak trees, like all forms of life, are descended from things that are only slightly different. In turn, those ancestors are descended from things that are slightly different again. It's a continuum, not a sharply-defined change.

To understand this, think about whether it makes sense to ask "who was the first person to speak French". It doesn't, of course - we know that French developed from Latin over the course of 1000 years, but there was never a time when a child suddenly began speaking French while his parents still spoke Latin.

In the case of the oak tree, we can speculate that the proto-oaks had seeds similar to other trees. One tree had a mutation that caused it to develop seeds that were slightly larger and fatter, and this had an advantage - maybe the size gave the seed additional energy, allowing it to germinate quicker. So this tree was more successful than others, allowing it to spread faster. This process continues over thousands or millions of years, until we have the oaks we know today.

Answer 3

Hi,

If you are religious then God planted the first Oak tree and it was self reproducing.

If you are like the rest of us and can see how evolution works then you know your answer.

It slowly evolved into an Oak tree over 1000's of years and along the way also developed the method of reproducing offspring.
i.e. an acorn

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Answer 4

Most original oak tree forests have been destroyed. In California some of the original oaks have been preserved and they conclude that at a certain periods it has been conducive for small acorns to grow into large trees.

If you don't live in California the local botanists could work out a common factor in which the local trees were planted or last cut down.

One poster has claimed that they evolved, however the record is that there were explosive spurts of new types of species that occurred so fast a fossil record can only give clues.

Drawing from my studies of Trifolium(clover) some common characteristics can be concluded as primitive characters. Primitive in a sense that the parent of all Trifolium had some of those characteristics. Applying some of the techniques to the Quercus family you can decide what is primitive and guestimate what the original Oak tree might have looked.

Answer 5

Those that think the evolution did it, should be able to provide an explanation of how this happened. Otherwise you are asking us to believe a fairy story.

Where did the information come from for the first tree?

There is no observed mechanism to support the evolution hypothesis. Mutations do not add new genetic information.

Evolution requires a lot more faith than accepting that God created the world full of biodiversity.

Answer 6

No, no, no!

In about 90 years the human race will send 1000 acorns back in time about 130 million years. They will appear about 50ft above the earths surface and fall to earth, planting themselves.

It's the way all life starts. In about another 20 years we'll decide the chicken and egg riddle is too difficult to solve and decide to sort it out our own way.

Next; anybody called Adam got a girlfriend called Eve who fancies a holiday in a a quiet little paradise?

Answer 7

its in basic terms a huge gamble yet in many circumstances often times whilst strolling the woods u see acorns sprouting that have in simple terms falling and lie there or yet another stable thank you to ensure could be to shallow plant some and go away some above floor experimenting often times in lifestyles will supply u all the solutions u want i'm hoping my comments help

Answer 8

according to evolutionary theory oak trees appeared gradually, diverging from other species that were similar

Answer 9

Its the same as the "chicken and egg"problem. Its just evolution.

Answer 10

OOOh very chicken and egg, cant answer this one unless you have a few hours spare................as its a long long explaination,