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Which of the following is a Parasitic plant?

Which of the following is a Parasitic plant? Correct Answer Cuscuta

Concept:

  • Nutrition is a process by which an organism consumes and uses food materials. 
  • There are various modes of nutrition mainly, Autotrophic, Heterotrophic, Chemoautotrophic, Saprophytic,  etc.
  • Parasitism is a type of heterotrophic nutrition.

Explanation:

Cuscuta:

  • Cuscuta is a parasitic plant.
  • Since Cuscuta does not have chlorophyll, it cannot synthesize its own food by photosynthesis.
  • It takes readymade food from the plant on which it is climbing.
  • The plant on which it climbs is called a host.
  • Since it deprives the host of valuable nutrients, it is called a parasite.
  • It is yellow and tubular in structure twining around the stem and branches of a tree.
  • Other parasitic plants are - Rafflesia, Viscum, Nuytsia floribunda.
  • Parasitic plants cause damage to the host plant.

Thus, the correct answer is Cuscuta.

Additional Information

  • Holophytic or autotrophic nutrition: In this type of nutrition the organisms prepare their food by themselves. Eg - green plants.
  • Saprobiotic nutrition: In this type of nutrition the organism depends on the dead and decaying matter of other organisms. Eg - fungi

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