Question

Why you never see cattle or goats browsing on weed Calotropis?

• A. The plant produces highly poisonous tannin
• B. The plant produces quinine which is bitter in taste
• C. The plant produces cardiac glycosides
• D. The plant bears prickles

Answer 1

The correct option is C The plant produces cardiac glycosides

Prey species have evolved various defenses to lessen the impact depredation. For pant, herbivores are the predators plants have evolved an astonishing verity of morphological and chemical defense against herbivores. Calotropis produces highly see any cattle or goat browsing on this plant. A wide variety of chemical substance that we extract from plants on a commercial scale (nicotine, caffeine, quinine, strychnine, opium, etc.) are produced by them actually as defenses against grazers and browsers. So, the correct answer is 'The plant produces cardiac glycosides'.