Some species of plants are insectivorous. Why?
- ATheir growth in shady and dark places does not allow them to undertake sufficient photosynthesis and thus they depend on insects for nutrition
- BThey are adapted to grow in nitrogen deficient soils and thus depend on insects for sufficient nitrogenous nutritionCorrect
- CThey cannot synthesize certain vitamins themselves and depend on the insects digested by them
- DThey have remained in that particular stage of evolution as living fossils, a link between autotrophs and heterotrophs
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