premise: the kind of fruit produced by trees is a chracteristic of trees sent2: a characteristic of something that is different for different kinds of that something is a distinct characteristic of that something sent3: the rate at which a tree loses its leaves is used to catergorize trees sent4: different kinds of trees keep or lose their leaves at different rates sent5: the rate at which trees keep or lose their leaves is a characteristic of trees sent6: different kinds of trees produce different types of fruit.
hypothesis: the type of fruit a tree produces can be used to catergorize trees