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why is it so that non green plants such as cuscuta cannot prepare their own food that is why they have heterotrophic mode of nutrition why not parasitic mode of nutrition

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Cascutta is a parasitic plant. It does not have chlorophyll. It takes readymade food from the plant on which it is climbing (Host).

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The organism lives on other organism is called as parasite.

An association between individuals of two different species which is beneficial to one and generally harmful to another is called parasitism. A parasite takes readymade food from the organism on which it feeds. They always feed on a living organism. The organism on which it feeds is called host. It deprives the host of valuable nutrients. Most parasites are microbes like the bacteria and viruses and animals.


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