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No. Plants make their own food except for the Venus flytrap which eats flies
No. Plants make their own food except for the Venus flytrap which eats flies
A Venus flytrap is a plant and can make most of its own food. However it lives in very nutrient (in terms of nitrogen compounds) poor environment and therefore obtains these chemicals by trapping insects.
No, they have to catch flies in their traps to retrieve much needed minerals and nutrients that their boggy habitat does not have to offer.
Venus Flytraps eat flies and insects because their environment resulted in the need for nutrients contained in them. They adapted to that environment and developed the traps for catching flies.
The pitcher plant lacks nitrogen. In order to get nitrogen it catches the insect & digest its protein in an acid solution. The plant can then absorb the nitrogen compounds it needs to make its own compounds.
It is an autotroph. It doesn't need to eat flies to survive. I had a venus fly trap and never gave it flies and it lived just fine with photosynthesis. Heterotrophs need to eat others to live.
Yes, the Venus Flytrap has an active "trap" consisting of a modified leaf. When a small insect lands on the leaf, small actuator hairs are disturbed and the trap closes - trapping the insect. The insect is then digested and assimilated through the leaf wall by digestive enzymes that are secreted by the plant.
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Plants create their own energy through photosynthesis and are able to absorb nutrients from the soil. Plants, such as the Venus Flytrap, seem to "eat," but this is due to the low amount of nutrients that they are able to absorb from the soil they live in.
With the process of photosynthesis, most plants are able to synthesize their own food from carbon dioxide, sunlight, water and minerals in the soil. They do not consume organic food. Some primitive bacteria are also able to make their own food. Such organisms are called autotrophs, and are mentioned in the theme song of The Big Bang Theory. Certain other plants such as Venus Flytrap and pitcher plants actually eat insects.