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How do carnivorous plants expel their waste?

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Humans and other animals get rid of their waste because they have to. If we think of a pitcher as a stomach, when this stomach get full, it simply dies. Plants can just grow another pitcher. Humans and other animals can't just grow another stomach. read more

Carnivorous plants are not exactly eating the animal as we do, just digesting the stuff they need and ridding themselves of the chiton and other indigestible stuff when the leaf dies. Their needs are Nitrogen, Potassium, Phosphorus, some Iron, and a few other things. The proteins in the animals are only usable as Nitrogen. No real need to expel waste. read more

Carnivorous plants wouldn't need to do that, because their meal is never really ingested. It is trapped, then attacked by enzymes and the usable compounds are absorbed by the plant. But whatever is left over would just fall out of a Venus fly trap, or be decomposed in a pitcher plant, or other processes. read more

Best Answer: As plants produce their own food, things are a little different in plants than in heterotrophs. However there are waste products from photosyntheis (its the opposite reaction of respiration eg carbon dioxide + water (and sunlight energy) --> glucose + oxygen. read more

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