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What are insectivorous plants and what is their
mode of nutrition?​

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Plants that eat bugs and insects for nutrition.

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Insectivorous plant -;

such plant are green hens they can prepare their own food by photosynthesis has these plant can be called autotrophic but they cannot make their nitrogen from soil such plant usually grow it place where they are sacarcity of nitrogen and they compensate this deficiency of nitrogen by eating insect thus this plant are partial heterotrophic for this purpose they have various type of adaptation.

  1. this plant eat small insect like spider .
  2. such plant have special structure to catch their prey.
  3. these plant usually green in colour and can prepare their on food.
  4. they eat insects because they grow in soil that is deficient in certain nutrient.
  5. they full film their nitrogen requirement by eating insect.
  6. Carnivorous plant

Venus flytrap

  • in Venus fly trap the leaves are modified into a trap the leaves inner surface of leaves have short step hair when an insect come in contact with these hair the two hole loves of leaves get closed and insect get trapped inside it which it then digested with the help of digestive juice present on it
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