Mineral Nutrition In Plants Question 30

Question: Pitcher plant is [KCET 1998]

Options:

A) Herbivorous

B) Carnivorous

C) Saprotroph

D) All of these

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Answer:

Correct Answer: B

Solution:

Carnivorous plants (Pitcher plant) are green plants.

They manufacture their food themselves.

Hence are autotrophic in nature.

They behave like heterotrophic organisms for supplementing their nitrogen supply only through catching and digesting small animals like insects.