Other Modes of Nutrition
Other Modes of Nutrition: Overview
This topic covers concepts, such as, Saprotrophic Nutrition in Plants, Parasitic Nutrition in Plants, Parasite & Heterotrophic Mode of Nutrition in Plants etc.
Important Questions on Other Modes of Nutrition
Heterotrophic plants such as Cuscuta or dodder plant that harm its host is called _____ plant.

Which one of these from the option is parasitic plants.

Cuscuta or dodder plant (amarbel) is carnivorous plant.


Find out and write about one plant that eats insects.

Choose the odd one. Give reasons for your choice.
Mango tree Dodder plant rose plant

Name an animal which lives on our head, whether it is louse or tick?

Where do parasites animals get their food?

Is there any animal which lives on our body or any other animal's body?



Which of the following is a saprotroph?

What is common between lichen, mycorrhizal root, and leguminous plants?

Discuss heterotrophic nutrition in plants

Parasites are the organisms that

What are parasites? Name two parasitic organisms each from the phyla Platyhelminthes and Nematoda.

Insectivorous plants eat insects because they _____

Write short notes on parasitic plants.

Write short notes on saprophytic plants.

Write short notes on the symbiotic plants.
