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DNA DEPENDED ON RNA INNOVATION. "Today we know that the DNA world, on its own, would not have brought forth such an incredible diversity by natural selection, let alone established the necessary genetic precondition to create such a high degree of complexity." https://lnkd.in/e-pJFM6 View in LinkedIn

"ACTIVE TRAPS move while trapping. To synchronize their movements action potentials (APs) are generated." https://lnkd.in/ebkP3Jk View in LinkedIn

SPEEDY MOTION. "Some active carnivorous plants have evolved traps that can move faster as theoretically possible due to pure hydraulics. A well-known example for this phenomenon is the snap-trap of the Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula, Droseraceae), which performs a combination of stimulus-triggered, active hydraulic motion followed by a passive release of elastic energy stored in the trap lobes." https://lnkd.in/eBHw6w4 View in LinkedIn

DUAL USE OF LEAVES. "It is not surprising that the dual use of leaves for photosynthesis and nutrient uptake has deeply reduced the net photosynthetic rate of terrestrial carnivorous plants, leading ultimately to reduction of the relative growth rate." https://lnkd.in/eyitYYX View in LinkedIn

CURIOUS BEASTIES. "Carnivorous plants have fascinated scientists and the general public since the pioneering studies of Charles Darwin. No doubt part of their wide appeal is that carnivorous plants have turned the evolutionary tables on animals, consuming them as prey, with the green predators often equipped with remarkable lures, traps, stomachs, and—in a few cases—extraordinary speed of movement." https://lnkd.in/eAvpP47 View in LinkedIn

RARE PLANT STRATEGY. "The use of prey by plants has been thought to usually not be the most economical way for plants to secure nutrients. This appears to be borne out by the relative rarity of the plant carnivorous syndrome, being present in only approximately 0.2% of flowering plant species." Some think this may be an under-estimate. https://lnkd.in/eGcB3qT View in LinkedIn

OLD AND DIVERSE. "Today we recognize at least 583 species of carnivorous plants in 20 genera, 12 families, and 5 orders of flowering plants. Based on DNA sequence phylogenies, these species represent at least nine independent origins of the carnivorous habit per se, and at least six independent origins of pitfall traps, five of sticky traps, two of snap traps, and one of lobster-pot traps...these origins of carnivory appear to have occurred between roughly 8 and 72 million years ago (Mya)." https://lnkd.in/eAvpP47 View in LinkedIn

ADAPTIVE STRATEGY. "Carnivorous plants live in nutrient-poor soils and have circumvented this shortage of resources by deriving most of their nutrients from the digestion of arthropods captured through a variety of trapping mechanisms." https://lnkd.in/eufMNnU View in LinkedIn

"CARNIVORY has evolved independently at least six times in five angiosperm orders. In spite of these independent origins, there is a remarkable morphological convergence of carnivorous plant traps and physiological convergence of mechanisms for digesting and assimilating prey." https://lnkd.in/e2_et_n View in LinkedIn

JUNK DNA AND COMPLEXITY. "Interestingly, increasing complexity correlates with the expansion of non-coding DNA." https://lnkd.in/e-pJFM6 View in LinkedIn