Ghost plant is a parasitic plant species that has no chlorophyll and cannot perf

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Ghost plant is a parasitic plant species that has no chlorophyll and cannot perform photosynthesis. These plants have a complex chain of parasitism that ultimately results in ghost plants receiving (“stealing”) sugars produced by another photosynthetic plant species. Importantly, evolutionary biologists have discovered that ghost plants are descended from photosynthetic ancestors that had chlorophyll.

Make sure to include all the components required for a properly constructed and cohesive natural selection explanation.

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Monotropa uniflora is known as ghost plant or indian pipe. it dont have chlorophyll, instead of driving energy from light it show parasitism. its host is fungi associated with certain mycorrizal tree.

to get carbohydrate monotropa have to mimic some fungi own chemical signal. the root system is more as a ball structurethat lead to largrfungal hyphae network near the tree roots. as Monotropa are achlorophyllus ; the parasitic relationship with the fungi must be predating the loss of photosynthesis.

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