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How Venus Flytraps 'Know' When to Reopen: Biochemical Feedback from Nutrient Absorption

Mechanism

Reopening is triggered when amino acid absorption slows below a threshold, signaling digestion completion. This is an automatic enzymatic feedback loop, not cognitive.

Analogy

Like human digestion moving food from stomach to intestine via hormonal cues, plants use chemical signals to coordinate trap cycling.

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