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Do Venus fly traps feed by heterotrophic or autotrophic nutrition?

April 26, 2017autotrophic Botany feed fly heterotrophic Mathematics nutrition Traps Venus

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Do Venus fly traps feed by heterotrophic or autotrophic nutrition?

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Venus Flytraps are actually both heterotrophic and autotrophic. Heterotrophic refers to any organism that gets energy from other organisms, and since Flytraps can digest and metabolize energy by eating insects, they are heterotrophic. Autotrophic refers to the ability to carry out photosynthesis to get energy from sunlight. Since Flytraps have this feature, they are also autotrophic.