PHOTOSYNTHESIS
CAM PLANTS
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Question
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They make their own sugar
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They gather their own water
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They do everything other plants do
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They steal sugar from other plants
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Detailed explanation-1: -The dodder contains no chlorophyll and instead absorbs food through haustoria; these are rootlike organs that penetrate the tissue of a host plant and may kill it. The slender, stringlike stems of the dodder may be yellow, orange, pink, or brown in colour.
Detailed explanation-2: -Dodder, a parasitic vine, grows rapidly, entwining and parasitizing its host plants by inserting haustoria (a special organ that only parasitic plants have and functions somewhat similarly as roots) into the host plants’ stems. The dodder vines can often connect different host plants together forming a network.
Detailed explanation-3: -The dodder plant obtains nutrients from the host plant by producing specialized structures called haustoria, which attach themselves to the host plant. The dodder withdraws sugars, amino acids and certain nutri-ents from the host at the site of contact.
Detailed explanation-4: -Commensalism is a type of symbiotic relationship where one plant gains some benefit(s) (the commensal) and the other (the host) neither benefits nor suffers any harm (Towle, 1989; Buchsbaum, 1957). Epiphytes are frequently cited as examples of this type of symbiotic relationship.