LIFE SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -You might call a venus flytrap a ‘mixotroph’. Autotrophs make their own food (like most plants); heterotrophs get food from elsewhere (like animals, which eat other organisms), and mixotrophs can do both.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Venus flytrap, a small perennial herbaceous plant, is one of the most widely recognized carnivorous plant species on Earth. It occupies distinct longleaf pine habitats in the Coastal Plain and Sandhills of North Carolina and South Carolina.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Venus flytrap (D. muscipula Solander ex Ellis), the only species of the genus Dionaea, is a carnivorous plant that grows in marshy areas of North and South Carolina states of the United States (Figure 1).

Detailed explanation-4: -So while carnivorous plants may be considered heterotrophic to a certain degree, for the most part they are autotrophic just like other plants.