Why does the pitcher plant use chemicals to turn its food into soup?

The pitcher plant is an insectivore plant that feeds on the insects. Although, it contains chlorophyll, and is capable of making food via photosynthesis, its habitat in the swamps makes it difficult for it to have access to minerals such as nitrogen. The nitrogen is obtained by it by digesting the insects by trapping them in the rolled leaves. The digestive enzymes are secreted by this plant, in order to digest these trapped insects. Since, it has no proper digestive system is present, these secreted enzymes turn the food into soup that can be easily absorbed.

interphase

the period of cell growth when the cell synthesizes new molecules and organelles. the cell is not dividing and it constitutes the majority of the time spent in the cell cycle

prophase

changes occur in the nucleus and cytoplasm. the chromatin condenses to form structures (sister chromatids) visible with a light microscope and the mitotic spindle begins to form, but the nucleus is still in tact

prometaphase

the nuclear envelope fragments and the spindle microtubules attach to the kinetochores of the sister chromatids

metaphase

all the cell's duplicated chromosomes are lined up at an imaginary plane equidistant between the poles of the mitotic spindle

anaphase

begins when sister chromatids separate from each other and ending when a complete set of daughter chromosomes arrives at each of the two poles of the cell

telophase

the daughter nuclei form at the two poles of a cell

cytokinesis

the division of a cytoplasm to form two separate daughter cells. usually occurs during telophase during mitosis. this and mitosis make up to mitotic (m) phase of the cell cycle