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todayilearned
Jul 04, 2020
TIL a Venus flytrap can count the number of times its victims touch the hairs on its leaves. One touch does nothing, two closes the trap, three primes the trap for digestion, five triggers the production of digestive enzyme. So, victims tell the plant to start killing it and how vigorously to do so.
bumbling fly
charles darwin
comenius university
dead fly
digestive efforts
digestive enzymes
digestive enzymes.after
electrical impulse
electrical impulses
fifth electrical impulse.the plant
first impulse
fly
flytrap traps.we start
gland cells
green stomach
hedrich’s latest study
inner surfaces of the traps
large fly struggles
life
long time
mystery
next morning
nutrient-poor swamps
open halves of the flytrap
outside world
own tissues.after
plant
plants
primes
production of digestive enzymes
rainer hedrich
second signal.the
sensory hairs
set of transporter enzymes
single impulse
so.the fly
so.the venus flytrap
spike of calcium ions
struggles of its prey
such false alarms
touch
trap
trap opens
trap snaps shut.the fly
traps
trap’s calcium levels
trigger hairs
unpublished work
venus flytrap
water
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