1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
vazorg [7]
3 years ago
13

PLEASE HELP ME I HAVE BEEN DOING THIS FOR HOURS!! How do some carnivorous plants avoid beginning the digestion process from an a

ccidental trigger? Why do you think this safeguard makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint?
Physics
1 answer:
konstantin123 [22]3 years ago
6 0

Answer:

Once a carnivorous plant has procured an item for dinner, it has to have some way to turn it into fertilizer. What carnivorous plants do is very similar to what humans do with their dinner after they have eaten it. Most carnivorous plants have glands that secrete acids and enzymes to dissolve proteins and other compounds. The plants may also enlist other organisms to help with digestion. The plants then absorb the nutrients made available from the prey.

Drosera releases digestive juices through the glands at the tip of its tentacles and absorbs the nutrients through the tentacles, leaf surface, and sessile glands. In order to do this it bends its tentacles and rolls or bends the leaf to get as many tentacles as possible into contact with the prey for digestion and to make as much leaf surface available for absorption. Its relative Drosophyllum has differently structured, non moving tentacles and doesn't use them directly for digestion. Instead it has specialized glands on the surface of the leaf that release the digestive enzymes (see Carniv. Pl. Newslett. 11(3):66-73 ( PDF ) for drawings and discussion).

The sealed trap of Dionaea does digestion in a way similar to the leaf surface digestion carnivores—upon capture of a prey, digestive enzymes in mucous are released. The advantage of the sealed trap of Dionaea is rain won't wash away the nutrients as digestion proceeds.

The sealed trap carnivores Aldrovanda and Utricularia already have water in their traps so they only need to release enzymes. Utricularia appears to release the enzymes continuously into its traps.

The other carnivorous plants use either a mixed mode of digestive enzymes and partner organisms (Genlisea, Sarracenia, most Nepenthes, Cephalotus, some Heliamphora, Roridula) or other organisms exclusively for digestion (most Heliamphora, some Nepenthes, Darlingtonia). Part of the reason for partnering with other organisms is that the plants actually have little choice in the matter. This could also be a factor for the leaf surface and sealed trap digesters as well. The prey will have gut flora that are quite capable of digesting their host when it dies. In addition, insect larvae, frog tadpoles, and predacious protozoans will or will attempt to take up residence in water-filled traps. The plant releasing digestive enzymes and acids into the traps will help tip the nutrition balance to themselves, but there are limits.

Explanation:

You might be interested in
Suppose a capacitor is fully charged by a battery and then disconnected from the battery. The positive plate has a charge +q and
dimaraw [331]

Answer:-q

Explanation:

Given

Capacitor is charged to a battery and capacitor acquired a charge of q i.e.

+q on Positive Plate and -q on negative Plate.

If the plate area is doubled and the plate separation is reduced to half its initial separation then capacitor becomes four times of initial value because capacitor is given by

c=\epsilon_0 \cdot \frac{A}{d}

where A=area of capacitor plate

d=Separation between plates

This change in capacitance changes the Potential such that new charge on the negative plate will remain same -q

8 0
3 years ago
A 5.5kg radio is pushed across the table. If the acceleration is 5m/s to the right, find the net force exerted on the radio.
Sholpan [36]

Answer:

Net force exerted on the radio is 27.5 Newton.

Given:

Mass = 5.5 kg

Acceleration = 5 \frac{m}{s^{2} }

To find:

Force exerted on the radio = ?

Formula used:

F = ma

Where F = net force

m = mass

a = acceleration

Solution:

According to Newton's second law of motion,

F = ma

Where F = net force

m = mass

a = acceleration

F = 5.5 × 5

F = 27.5 Newton

Hence, Net force exerted on the radio is 27.5 Newton.


4 0
3 years ago
A collection of 1.25×1019 electrons has the charge <br> -3c, <br> -1c, <br> -2c
djverab [1.8K]

Answer:

-2 C

Explanation:

charge of an electron = -1.6x10^{-19}C

therefore charge of 1.25 x 10^{19} electrons = (1.6x10^{-19}) x (-1.25x10^{19}) = -2 C

3 0
3 years ago
Chuck drove 35mi from Austin to San Marcos in 40min, stopped 30min for a hamburger, and then drove 45mi to San Antonio in 50min.
Effectus [21]

Answer:

his average speed was 40 miles per hour

5 0
3 years ago
Hannah, who has a mass of 65 kg, is riding at 25 m/s in her sports car when she must suddenly swerve off the road to avoid
Annette [7]

Hannah comes to a rest in <em>t</em> = 0.4 s, so her acceleration is

<em>a</em> = (0 - 25 m/s) / (0.4 s) = -62.5 m/s²

(that is, the acceleration points in the direction opposing her movement forward as she brakes)

Then the force exerted on her by the seatbelt has magnitude

<em>F</em> = (65 kg) (62.5 m/s²) = 4062.5 N ≈ 4063 N

7 0
3 years ago
Other questions:
  • What is the general relationship between earthquake epicenters and volcano positions along the Pacific coast of Mexico and Centr
    13·1 answer
  • A motorist is driving at 20m/s when she sees that a traffic light 200m ahead has just turned red. She knows that this light stay
    12·1 answer
  • A person shooting at a target from a distance of 450 metres finds that the sound of the bullet hitting the target comes 1 / 2 se
    5·1 answer
  • Which of the following is a major way in which oceans contribute to weather systems?
    11·1 answer
  • Trial 1: Get a textbook and put a sheet of paper on top of it. Fold the paper as needed to keep the paper from sticking over the
    7·1 answer
  • A student who weighs 750 newton’s runs up the steps (which have a height of 8 meters) in 13.5 seconds. How much work did the stu
    6·1 answer
  • Which does not decrease your chances of being injured
    14·1 answer
  • In rules for naming a compound you change the negative name to end in" ide" *
    11·1 answer
  • What is happening when an oxygen molecule is formed from two separate oxygen atoms?
    9·1 answer
  • Balance the following chemical equation:<br> H3PO4 + HCl → PC15 + H20
    8·1 answer
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!