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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Group 16: Econ Project #1 Due: 16 October 2003 Introduction by Jamie Ifkovits: Oil is certainly the world ’s largest cash commodity. One of the main products produced from crude oil is gasoline. Gas plays a significant role in the life of people in countries throughout the world. Gas accounts for approximately 17% of the energy consumed in the United States and is primarily used for powering automobiles ("A Primer on Gasolne Prices" 5 Oct 2003). The prices paid by customers at the
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“The Private Life of Plants: Traveling” was a useful documentary to help clarify my understanding on how plants manage to spread their seeds and germinate. I enjoyed watching the different time lapses for the species of plants and it helped me to see exactly what happens rather than reading it in a book or seeing a simple picture. I was amazed at all the different mechanisms plants used to travel around and not stick to just one area. I did not expect the pointy spines of plants to allow them to grip
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Insulin Plant (Costus Ingneus) Ayurvedic Medicinal Herbs [pic] Insulin Plant (Costus Ingneus) Ayurvedic Medicinal HerbsInsulin plant (Costus ingneus) is a relatively new entrant to Kerala and India. The plant is a late entrant to Kerala Ayurvedic medicinal herb scene mostly from USA. Insulin plant has not got a Malayalam name yet‚ except the occasional use of insulin chedy or insulin chedi‚ where chedy means a plant. The catchphrase of this plant is ‘a leaf a day keeps diabetes awayÂ’. The
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between plants and people is made possible by the differences between cellular respiration and photosynthesis. While cellular respiration occurs in all living organisms‚ photosynthesis relies on chlorophyll and is unique to plants‚ algae‚ and some bacteria. Respiration and photosynthesis are essentially the same process in reverse. During photosynthesis CO2 and H2O are converted to glucose and oxygen‚ while cellular respiration uses glucose and oxygen which are converted to CO2 and H20. Plants utilize
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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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giving you a related example that most people understand. 2. How did diet affect this disease’s progression? And what was “Lorenzo’s oil”? Why was it special? Diet helped and harmed Lorenzo. Lorenzo’s oil is a 4:1 mixture of glyceryl trierucate and glyceryl trioleate (the triglyceride forms of erucic acid and oleic acid)‚ prepared from rapeseed oil and olive oil. It is used in the investigational treatment of asymptomatic patients with adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD). 3. How did Augusto use modeling
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SICK PLANTS Hypothesis: From my research‚ I think the plant in the solution containing all nutrients will have the fastest / most successful growth‚ and the control group / water solution will have the least growth as it doesn’t have any of its necessary nutrients. Variables: The independent variable will be the solution the plants are put in to begin with. All other conditions will be kept the same‚ such as temperature‚ sunlight‚ length of shoot‚ time space left. I will have a control group
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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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Role of mycorrhizas in the mineral nutrition of host plants Mycorrhizas are very important in the uptake of nutrients such as P‚ N‚ K‚ Cu‚ Zn and Ca by plants especially in soils low in these nutrients. Since P is the most limiting nutrient in tropical soils‚ mycorrhizas are vital for improving P nutrition particularly for cultivated plants. External hyphae can absorb and translocate P to the host from soil outside the root depletion zone. The thin mycorrhizal hyphae (2-4 μm in diameter) are able
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