Carnivorous Plants In a world where plants are at the bottom of the food-chain‚ some individual plant species have evolved ways to reverse the order we expect to find in nature. These insectivorous plants‚ as they are sometimes called‚ are the predators ‚ rather than the passive prey. Adaptations such as odiferous lures and trapping mechanisms have made it possible for these photosynthesizers to capture‚ chemically break-down and digest insect prey (and in some cases even small animals.) There
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Some of the most bizarre and fascinating plants in the natural world are undoubtedly carnivorous plants. Carnivory‚ defined as the consumption of animal tissue‚ is often only associated with the animal kingdom. However the existence of carnivory is widespread and diverse in the plant and fungi kingdoms as well. Specifically carnivorous plants‚ which originally descended from exclusively photosynthetic plants‚ have evolved elaborate‚ efficient‚ and diverse methods to capture‚ digest‚ and metabolize
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Noah Onoff Dr. Ho Intro to Plant Life 10 December 2012 The Evolution of Carnivorous Plants In addition to being a subject in the occasional Hollywood horror movie‚ carnivorous plants are possibly the most fantastic members of the plant world. Over time‚ they have developed unique morphological characteristics in order to survive‚ paying homage to Darwin’s theory of natural selection. How carnivorous plants evolved is still somewhat unknown to botanists‚ this‚ in addition to their morphology
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Genlisea Violacea is a carnivorous plant that is restricted to the areas of South America and Trinidad. (1). This species can grow when it I half or fully submerged in water. (2) They flourish best in wet habitats‚ such as marshes and swamps. (2) The top part of the trap consists of a descending stolon. (2)About midway down the stolon there is a swollen digestion chamber—the utricle--which makes the descending part of the stolon look somewhat like the neck of an ostrich that has
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Sundew plant Sundew are a kind of carnivorous plant. The leaves of sundews are covered with "tentacles". sundew is found throughout all parts of the world. Its greatest concentrations are in Australia and South Africa‚ making them the largest group of carnivorous plants. They have a long-ish head that’s parallel to the ground with small sticky red balls. The insect sticks to the balls and the head curls up to eat it. Besides those there are also some ones in which the heads are the shape of
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SUBJECT MATTER RESEARCH OF PROJECT DIMENSION CONCEPT INSPIRATION PRICE ASSUMPTION CONSUMER PREFRENCES IDEA GENERATION OCCASION MARKET SURVEY MATERIAL PRODUCT TECHNIQUE ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES OF ART AND DESIGN Pitcher plants are carnivorous plants whose prey-trapping mechanism features a deep cavity filled with liquid known as a pitfall trap.[1] It is widely assumed pitfall traps evolved by epiascidiation (infolding of the leaf with the axadial or upper surface becoming the inside
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INSECTIVOROUS PLANTS An insectivorous plant‚ also called a carnivorous plant‚ captures prey items‚ such as insects‚ spiders‚ crustaceans‚ mites‚ and protozoans‚ as a nitrogen source. Many insectivorous species live in freshwater bogs‚ where nitrogen is not present in available form‚ because the pH of the water is extremely acid. The forms of entrapment by these types of plants are modified leaves. Five basic trapping mechanisms are found in carnivorous plants. 1. Pitfall traps (pitcher plants) trap prey
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Michigan Manufacturing Corporation’s: The Pontiac Plant‚ 1992 Overhead costs of plants in the Michigan Manufacturing (MM) system vary greatly from plant to plant for several reasons‚ but the major one is that the varying complexity of the mission of each plant. Exhibits 2A and 2B show that different plants vary greatly in the number of product families they produce‚ and then also in the number of product models. We did not calculate the correlation between these numbers and the burden rates‚ but
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Determining absorbance of various wavelengths of light for pigments present in Coleus plants Joseph Yung (King Yung) 212831426 Adrian Ionescu Section M 11 February 5‚ 2014 Absorbance Table Absorbance Spectra Figure 1: Absorption spectra of pigments found‚ through chromatography‚ within Coleus plants. The different wavelengths of light were determined by the use of a spectrophotometer Questions
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PLANTS Plants in Our Daily Life A plant(also called green plants) is a multi-cellular living organism‚member of kingdom Plantae.It is at the base of the food web and are Autotrophs.Plants are considered as backbone of all life on Earth and essential resource for living oragnisms.Plants can be reffered as a factory which processes light into energy and manufactures food for it ownself as well as for other living things.Scientists have foundmore than 270‚000 spieces of plants They include a host of
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