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Chapter 38, Problem 10TY
Which plant uses a passive trap to obtain animal prey as a source of mineral nutrients?
- a. the Indian pipe (Monotropa uniflora)
- b. the tropical pitcher plant (Nepenthes spp.)
- c. the Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula)
- d. dodder (Cuscuta spp.)
- e. all of the above
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