The tropical pitcher plant is a unique plant that obtains its nutrition by digesting insects. The plant traps insects in its pitcher-shaped leaves and dissolves them as part of the digestion process. Tropical pitcher plants grow in warm, moist places in which the soil is poor in nutrients. Because of their feeding habits, pitcher plants are able to control the insect populations in the areas in which they live. Which best describes the pitcher plant’s niche? controlling insect populations sharing a habitat with insects having pitcher-shaped leaves being a unique type of plant

Read the following excerpt from a student essay. How can the writer best improve his or her sentence fluency?The Western Australian pitcher plant is a carnivorous plant native to southwestern Australia. The pitcher is a perennial herb. It is approximately eight inches high. Growing in swampy or sandy soils, it obtains needed nutrients from insects and other small prey. The pitcher plant has carnivorous leaves. The leaves act as traps, or pitchers. The pitchers produce enzymes for digesting prey. Prized among collectors, the plant is considered a vulnerable species.by varying how sentences beginby combining sentencesby using shorter sentencesSubmit

The pitcher-plant mosquito (Wyeomyia smithii) has a genetically-controlled behavioral response to changing seasons: these mosquitos transition from an active period of growth and reproduction in warmer months to diapause, or dormancy, in cooler months. The environmental cue that induces mosquitos to enter diapause is daylength, which gets shorter towards the end of the mosquitos’ active period.In the habitat range of the pitcher-plant mosquito, regions that are further south tend to have longer periods of warmth than regions that are further north. So, the active period for mosquitos in southern regions lasts later into the year, when the days are shorter. As a result, the daylengths that induce diapause in southern mosquito populations are, on average, shorter than the daylengths that induce diapause in northern mosquito populations.Researchers have observed that climate change has led to longer periods of warmth in the pitcher-plant mosquito’s northern range.Based on the information above, which of the following best predicts the effect of climate change on the northern populations of pitcher-plant mosquitos?

Select all the adaptations of plants that enable them to live successfully on land.Multiple select question.dispersal of gametes in watercuticle to minimize water lossroots for anchoring and absorption of water and nutrientsvascular tissue for transport of water and nutrientslack of cell walls to permit direct exchange of gases with the atmosphere

A microscopic pore in leaves and stems that allows gas exchange between the environment and the plant interior.Group of answer choicesstomamesophyllplasmodesmatastroma

A microscopic pore in leaves and stems that allows gas exchange between the environment and the plant interior.Group of answer choicesplasmodesmatamesophyllstomastroma