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question 90

Multiple Choice

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Soil can be considered a complex ecosystem because it contains inorganic particles, minerals, water, and a large diversity of living organisms that all interact with one another. Plants need soil to grow and humans depend on plants for food, building supplies, a source of heat, etc.
-Since soil provides plants with a substrate for support and water, minerals, and oxygen, what is a plausible hypothesis to explain the evolution of carnivorous plants?

• A)Not all soils are rich in nutrients, and parasitic plants that live in soils that are poor in oxygen and carbon can supplement their needs by digesting animals.
• B)If plants that consume insects grow faster and have higher reproductive success, then carnivory is adaptive.
• C)These plants have a mutant gene that decreases photosynthetic output.
• D)Carnivorous plants are rare and compete poorly with noncarniverous plants.
• E)Carnivorous plants are parasites on many invertebrates and small vertebrates.

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