Plants-simulators
Published February 12, 2023

In biology, there is such a thing - simulating forms. This is not the first time that the everyday and scientific meanings of the word do not match. "Simulating" in biology does not mean "depicting an ailment." Simulating forms are simply superficially similar animals or plants that are not really related. Many other names have been introduced for this similarity: homoplasia, convergence, parallelism, homeomorphy, mimicry, etc...