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2. What are plant parasites? Name any two plant parasites.
3. How does the pitcher plant catch its prey?

4. Differentiate between parasitic and insectivorous plants.
5. Algae and fungi live together in lichens.
(a) What is this association called?
(b) What value can we learn from this association in nature?
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1. Dodder (Cassytha spp., Cuscuta spp.) and red rattle (Odontites vernus) are generalist parasites. Other parasitic plants are specialists that parasitize a few or just one species.

2. Pitcher plants are several different carnivorous plants which have modified leaves known as pitfall traps—a prey-trapping mechanism featuring a deep cavity filled with digestive liquid.

3.Parasitic plants cannot photosynthesise and hence, are depended on other living organisms for their nutrition. Mistletoe is a partial parasite. I

4. The algal part known as the phycobiont and the fungal part known as mycobiont share a symbiotic relationship between them.

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