Question

A. Answer the questions.
1. Give a brief description of the pitcher plant and where it grows.
2. Which part of the plant is shaped like a pitcher? How is it formed?
3. What variation can be seen in the shape and size of the pitchers?
4. To what does the writer compare the pitcher?
5. Why does the plant need to attract insects?
of the pitcher plant given below.​

Answer 1

Answer:

it is an insectivore it lives in soil of less protein leaves are pitchers because of less protein in soil it eats insects

Answer 2

Answer:

1. 1)Pitcher plants are found in a wide range of habitats with poor soil conditions, from pine barrens to sandy coastal swamps, and rely on carnivory to obtain nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus. Crimson pitcher plant (Sarracenia leucophylla). Its carnivorous pitchers attract and digest insects.2)Leaves: pitcher plant is actually evolved from a modified leaf. So the leaf forms the lid of the pitcher. The apex of the leaf is the lid. The leaves are modified into the shape of a pitcher-like structure in order to trap its prey.3)Nepenthes pitcher plants exhibit considerable interspecific variation in the size and shape of their traps and of the upper pitcher rim (peristome). (a) N. hurreliana, (b) N. muluensis, (c) N. mirabilis var. echinostoma, (d) N. rajah, (e) N. tentaculata, (f) N. ampullaria, (g) N. gracilis and (h) N. lowii. All pitchers are shown at the same scale.4)Pitcher plants (or pitfall traps) are carnivorous plants whose prey-trapping mechanism features a deep cavity filled with liquid known as a pitfall trap.5)Pitcher plants trap insects in its modified trap-like organ to fulfill its requirements of Nitrogen and other nutrients as it grows in soil that lacks nitrogen. The dead insect inside its trap provides such nutrients required for normal functioning of the plant.