In this task, we ask you to rewrite a sentence in simple English without changing its general meaning. Essentially, you want to make the sentence easier to read by using simpler words, utilizing more straightforward sentence structures, and omitting non-essential information etc.

All of the yews are very closely related to each other , and some botanists treat them all as subspecies or varieties of just one widespread species ; under this treatment , the species name used is " Taxus baccata " , the first yew described scientifically .
All of the yews are very closely related to each other , and often described together as " Taxus baccata " .

Fax ( short for facsimile ) , sometimes called telecopying or telefax ( the latter short for telefacsimile ) , is the telephonic transmission of scanned printed material ( both text and images ) , normally to a telephone number connected to a printer or other output device .
Fax ( short for facsimile ) , or telecopying , is the transmission of scanned printed material ( both text and images ) , to a telephone number connected to a printer or other output device .

A federation ( also known as a federal state ) is a political entity characterized by a union of partially self-governing provinces , states , or other regions under a central federal government ( federalism ) .

A federation is a union of a number of self-governing states or regions , which are joined together under a central government .

