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What is the mode of nutrition in cuscuta?

Cuscuta is a parasitic plant that lacks chlorophyll and is unable to produce its own food through photosynthesis. Instead, it extracts nutrients and water from its host plants through specialized structures called haustoria. This makes Cuscuta a heterotrophic organism that depends on other plants for its nutrition.


What is common amongst cuscuta ticks and leeches?

they all intake parasitic nutrition


What is the scientific name of the cuscuta plant?

Dodder is the scientific name of Cuscuta plant


How do cuscuta plant obtain their food?

Cuscuta plants are parasitic plants that lack chlorophyll, so they cannot photosynthesize and produce their own food. Instead, they use specialized structures called haustoria to attach onto a host plant and extract nutrients and water from it. Cuscuta plants have evolved this parasitic lifestyle in order to obtain the resources they need to survive.


Which sort of plant cells don't contain chloroplasts and why?

Paracitic plants do not have.They obtain carbon from their host.ex-cuscuta


What is the substance from which cuscuta derives nutrients from otherplants?

Dodder (Cuscuta) known locally as Amarbel/Akashbel is a parasitic plant that lacks both chlorophyll and leaves. It is a yellow colour climber that attaches itself to the host. It gives out haustoria or the suckers that get attached to the phloem of the host and derive nutrition. Cuscuta does not have roots in the mature condition. It produces bunches of whitish or yellowish bell shaped flowers.


Where do mushrooms and mucor obtain nutrition from?

mode of the nutrition of mucor


How does the sporophyte obtain nutrition?

Photosynthesis


How do plants obtain nutrition?

the chlorophyll


How do plants like mistletoe obtain nutrition?

They grow on another plant so that they can obtain the nutrition from that plant. They are known as parasitic plants.


What is the parasitic plant with a yellow slender and tubular stem?

The parasitic plant you are referring to is likely the "Dodder" (Genus: Cuscuta). Dodder lacks chlorophyll, so it wraps itself around host plants to obtain nutrients and water. It has a distinctive yellow, slender, and tubular stem.


How do dinoflagellates obtain nutrition?

Zooflagellates obtain nutrition just like animals do. They are heterotrophic meaning they have to consume organic substrates for sustenance. Word origin: Greek, heterone = (an)other + trophe = nutrition.