NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS
NUTRITION
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A grasshopper that feeds on plants
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A queen honey bee that is attracted to a pollen flower.
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A fungi sprout near a tree that is surrounded by dead leaves
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A pitcher plant that also feeds on insects that will be trapped in their leaf
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Detailed explanation-1: -Pitcher plant exhibits both autotrophic and hetrotrophic mode of nutrition. It has chloroplasts in its modified leaf parts, which carry out photosynthesis. Nitrogen requirement of the plants is met by digesting the small insects and animals that they trap. Due to this dual mode of nutrition, they are called mixotrophs.
Detailed explanation-2: -The pitcher plant has both autotrophic and heterotrophic modes of nutrition. The pitcher plant performs photosynthesis which makes it an autotrophic plant but it has also a partial heterotrophic mode of nutrition because pitcher plant grows on nitrogen deficient soil.
Detailed explanation-3: -The pitcher plant is observed as insectivorous. It grows and develops in nitrogen-deficient soil so derives its nitrogen from insects.