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Carnivorous Plants
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In a world where plants are at the bottom of the food-chain, some
individual plant species have evolved ways to reverse the order we expect to
find in nature. These insectivorous plants, as they are sometimes called, are
the predators , rather than the passive prey. Adaptions such as odiferous lu ....
Middle of essay ....protein enables
these plants to survive in somewhat hostile environments.
The evolution of carnivorous plants is speculative due to the paucity of
the fossil record. It is believed that plant carnivory may have evolved millions
of years ago from plants whose leaves formed depressions that retained rain
water. Small insects would sometimes fall into these water reservoirs and drown,
eventually being decomposed by bacteria in the water. The nutrients from the
insects would be absorbed by the le.... |
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