AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The potato is a typical tuber, as is the Jerusalem artichoke. The term is also used imprecisely but widely for fleshy roots, corms, or rhizomes of other plants that resemble tubers-e.g., the “tuber” (actually a tuberous root) of a dahlia.

Detailed explanation-2: -A tuber is a plant that mainly grows underground. Potatoes and yams are tubers-and they’re delicious with a little butter and salt. The part of a potato plant that can be eaten is its thickened underground stem-and officially, that’s the part of the plant considered a tuber.

Detailed explanation-3: -Tubers are usually high in starch. Examples are kūmara, potatoes, (storage root), yam, taro, Jerusalem artichoke and ulluco.

Detailed explanation-4: -A potato is classified as a stem. Because it has many nodes known as eyes. The space between each eye is internodes. The potato eye grows into a shoot and a new plant.