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What are the advantages of plants being able to catch and digest animals as well as to photosynthesise?
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∙ 12y ago
Animals take the energy made by the plants in photosynthesis and use that energy to survive. If animal is a herbivore, it eats these plants and then the energy is built up in them from consumption. The next animal in the food chain then eats that animal and gains less energy from the animal than it would from consuming that plant. If we ate beef all the time, we would be feeding off the energy that was given to the cow by eating the grass and other plants. If we ate the same amount of plant matter as the meat, then we would gain more energy.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 12y agoIt means they don't have to rely on sunlight to produce food. Most carnivorous plants live in soil that's poor in nutrients - so catching or trapping insects etc provides more nutrition than relying on soil and sunlight.
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What can plants do with their chloroplasts that animals cannot do?
Plants can make their own food!Plants can photosynthesise. Makin glucose from waterand carbon dioxide using light.
What type of organism can photosynthesise?
Only Producers (plants) can photosynthesise
How non green plants photosynthesise?
They do not photosynthesise. They get their nutrients though their roots.
When do wild plants photosynthesise?
Wild plants only photosynthesise during the daybecause they need the sunlight as energy during photosynesis.lolz555
What color are plants that do photosynthesis?
All plants photosynthesise
How are leaves helpful to animals?
1. Leaves in plants photosynthesise, whereby they give out oxygen, which is used by animals in respiration. 2. Leaves are a source of food for some animals. (They eat leaves.)
Is this true both plants and animals cell can make food from sunlight?
I think yes bcuz of the cell wall Nd photosynthesise
When you eat both plants and animals what is that called?
Omnivore is when you are able to eat and digest plants and animals. Herbivores are organisms that are limited to just eating plants. And carnivores are limited to only eating animals (meat).
Do animals photosynthesise?
No. We do not perform the function of photosynthesis as we are heterotrophs.Plants ,who are autotrophs perform photosynthesis to make their ownfood.The plants by this process convert the suns energy into their food
Why do green plants need chlorophyll?
To be able to photosynthesise
If plants had no carbon dioxide?
The would not be able to photosynthesise
Why do carnivorous plants need to photosynthesise?
for making glucose.
