Question

Carnivorous plants have enzymes that are able to break down the proteins of the insects and small animals that they ingest. The mechanisms required for carnivorous plants have developed over many lineages across the world in separate ecosystems. The development of carnivorous mechanisms in plants is an example of:

Answer 1

Convergent Evolution

Step-by-step explanation:

Convergent evolution is the development of similar traits, across many lineages by plants and animals who originally do not have these traits but developed them because of the biome that they find themselves. Carnivorous plants are examples of living things that have undergone carnivorous evolution.

Plants lacking in Nitrogen have undergone carnivorous evolution for up to seven lineages. Sundews for instance have developed flypaper traps, a carnivorous property that helps them trap insects that they eventually digest.