#2) Big Idea 1 Term 3: Adaptation of a plant

Nepenthes Sanguinea (depicted above) is a pitcher plant from the island of Borneo. It grown where the soil quality is very poor so it adapted to its environment by producing pitchers that contain a liquid filled with enzymes that break down the bodies of insects and small rodents that fall into the pitchers. The nutrients from these animals are absorbed by the pitcher and they give N. Sanguinea The atoms and molecules that it needs to grow.