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This paper is about the possible existence of universal/minimal elements for classes of \\textit{dendrites}, locally connected metrizable continua that contain no simple closed curves.NEWLINENEWLINEIf \\(x\\) is a point of a space \\(X\\), its \\textit{order} in \\(X\\) is the least cardinal \\(\\kappa\\) such that \\(x\\) has arbitrarily small open neighborhoods with boundaries of cardinality \\(\\leq\\kappa\\). A point of order 1 is called an \\textit{end} point of the space, a point of order \\(\\geq 3\\) is called a \\textit{ramification} point.NEWLINENEWLINEAs for old positive results, the authors tell us that the class \\(\\mathcal{F}\\) has a universal element if: (1) \\(\\mathcal{F}\\) is the class of all dendrites [\\textit{T.~Wazewski}, Ann. de la soc. polon. de math. 2, 49--170 (1924; JFM 50.0373.02)]; (2) \\(\\mathcal{F}\\) is the class of dendrites where all points have order \\(\\leq n\\) (\\(n\\) a fixed whole number) [\\textit{K.~Menger}, Kurventheorie. Leipzig: B. G. 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