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1. What is different about the soil where the Venus Fly Traps thrive?
2. How does the Venus Fly Trap attract its prey?
3. What is unusual about the cell “growth” that happens in the Venus Fly Trap
during closing of the trap?
4. What is the physical adaptation that Acacia has with ants?
5. What attracts insects initially to the Sundew?
6. What features do the Sundew and the Venus Fly Trap have in common which
would lead you to believe they are related?
7. Why would aquatic plants have less need for roots than a land plant?
8. Why is turgor pressure important in the operations of the Bladderwort?
9. What are the essential elements of the Bromeliad’s pit-fall design?
10. Describe how the Pitcher Plant first attracts and then guides insect visitors to its
trap.
11. What does the success of the Pitcher Plant’s trap tell you about the instinctive
behavior of insects?
12. Suggest how water-trapping structures might be an advantage even before they
evolve into fully effectice insect traps.
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