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Which one is an insectivorous plant?
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Vallisneria
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Rafflesia
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Santalum
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Nepenthes
An insectivorous plant among the following is
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Nepenthes
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Sarracenia
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Crotalaria
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Both A and B
Nepenthes and sarracenia , both called pitcher plant are insectivorous plants because they trap insects and feed on them for obtaining nitrogen content.they are called pitcher plant because their leaves are modified into a pitcher like structures.
Which of the following is insectivorous?
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Hydrilla
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Ricinus
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Drosera
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Ranunculus
Drosera, also called as sundew is an insectivorous plant because it lives by feeding on insects. its leaves are covered by a mucilaginous substance which attracts the insect and traps it. It looks like morning dew, so the name sundew.
Insectivorous plants are also called as
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Omnivorous plants
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Carnivorous plants
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Parasitic plants
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Saprophytes
Insectivorous plants are often called carnivorous plants because they usually trap and digest the insects to obtain their required nutrients.
The ability of the Venus Flytrap to capture insects is due to
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Specialized "muscle-like" cells
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Chemical stimulation by the prey
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A passive process requiring no special ability on the part of the plant
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Rapid turgor pressure changes
Venus Flytrap is an insectivorous plant. It grows in waterlogged soils. Due to waterlogging, the amount of available nitrogen is very less. Hence, it obtains its nitrogen from the insects. Due to this reason, it is also called as the semi-autotrophic or semi-heterotrophic plant. It has leaves with winged petiole attached to it and lamina is modified into two toothed jaws. Each jaw has numerous teeth. Also, the upper surface of each jaw has long sensitive bristles. The upper surface also contains irregularly scattered glands. These bristles are very sensitive to touch stimulus. When an insect comes in contact with these bristles, there is a rapid change in the turgor pressure. This results in the closing of leaf and the insect are captured.
All of the following parts of the plant is present in pitcher plant except.
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Leaves
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Roots
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Stem
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Seeds
- Pitcher plants are the several different carnivorous plants. These have modified leaves known as pitfall traps.
- These are having a prey-trapping mechanism.
- The traps of are true in pitcher plants and are formed by the specialized leaves.
- So, we can say that pitcher plants don’t have leaves.
- The correct option is A.
Insectivorous plants are _________.
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Saprophytes
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Heterotrophs
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Semiautotrophs
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Autotrophs
Autotrophs plants are those which gets nutrients through photosynthesis in the presence of sunlight. Insectivorous plants just like almost every other plant, get their energy from sunlight. They feed on insect to fufill their nitrogen requirement, that's why they can easily grown in nitrogen deficient soil condition.
Which of the following plant traps insect for nutrients?
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Lotus
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Pitcher
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Rose
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Tulip
Which is not an insectivorous plant?
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Dionaea
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Dischidia$/$Monotropa
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Drosera
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Pinguicula
In which type of soil pitcher plants can grow?
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Phosphorus deficient soil
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Potassium deficient soil
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Nitrogen deficient soil
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None of the above
Carnivorous plants like pitcher plants are having a trapping mechanism designed to catch and digest insects. They do this to obtain the nutrients not found in the soil. They derive nitrogen from the prey they trap and thus they can grow in nitrogen-deficient soil.
The correct option is C.