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Deepika Deepika

Class 10th
Science
2 years ago

Why Cuscuta have parasitic mode of nutrition?

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Abhishek Mishra

2 years ago

Cuscuta does not have chlorophyll, so it cannot synthesize its own food. Thus it obtains nutrition from its host through modified roots called haustoria. Haustoria penetrate into the host cell and derive their nutrition from there.

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