Question

Mach the items in column 1 with those in column 2 column1 chlorophy ,nitrogen,marvel , animals, infects column 2 bactira , hetrotrophs, pitcher plant, leaf, parasite

Answer 1

Why does the pitcher plant feed on insects if it has chlorophyll and performs photosynthesis too?

Absolutely. Pitcher plant is green as it contains chlorophyll and hence it is capable of performing photosynthesis ( a process in which green plants prepare their own food with the help of sunlight) due to which they are also called as Autotrophs. Pitcher plants on the other hand are also called as Carnivorous pants.

Carnivorous because they feed on insects. This question must arise in your mind what is the need of feeding on insects when these plants are already photosynthetic? Well, this is because all plants need some minerals which play an essential role in their survival and pitcher plant is one such plant which grows in swamp or bog areas where the soil is deficient in nitrogen mineral.

In order to fulfill the deficiency of nitrogen, they trap the insects ( these have proteins and proteins are the polypeptide chains which contain amino acids, amino acid in turn has nitrogen as one of its elements ) and utilize their proteins. For this reason it is called insectivorous plant also. It traps prey in rolled leaf that contains a pool of digestive enzymes or bacteria that help in the digestion of the trapped insects.

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