Question

if a pitcher plant has chlorophyll why does it eat insects

Answer 1

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Pitcher plants make there food themselves as they have their own chlorophyll but still they depends on insects because the food prepared by the pitcher plants lack in Nitrogenous compounds. For fulfillment of this lacking they take insects as because insects provide enough nitrogenous compounds to them.
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Answer 2

Answer:

1. Carnivorous plants are plants which get nutrients from trapping and eating animals.

2. They are often called insectivorous plants, because they usually trap insects.

3. Since they get some of their food from animals, carnivorous plants can grow in places where the soil is thin, or poor in nutrients.

4. In pitcher plant the leaf is modified to form a pitcher like structure.

5. When an insect sits on the pitcher of the plant, the lid closes and the insect gets trapped inside the pitcher.

6. The insect is then digested by the enzymes secreted by the cells of the plants.