The Venus fly trap is a carnivorous plant that eats insects that land on it and become trapped inside of its jaw-like leaves. The struggling of the insects moves hairs on the plant surface that trigger the trap to close tight. This mechanism is analogous to which type of touch receptor in humans? Merkel disc Ruffini corpuscle hair root plexuses Meissner corpuscle
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