AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Some examples of plants with taproots include dandelions, carrots, parsnips, and beets.

Detailed explanation-2: -Roots are the part of the plant mainly responsible for anchoring it down into the ground and absorbing the essential mineral elements, nutrients, and water from the soil, and used to store food. Carrots are roots, it’s a taproot.

Detailed explanation-3: -Taproots are commonly found in plants like beetroot, burdock, carrot, sugar beet, dandelion, parsley, parsnip, poppy mallow, radish, sagebrush, turnip, common milkweed, cannabis, and trees such as oaks, elms, pines, and firs are some of the taproot plant names.

Detailed explanation-4: -The two sorts of root systems anchor the plant to the soil. The two systems are examples of genuine roots which develop from the radicle of the plant embryo. Plants like carrots and radish exhibit a tap root system, while grass and coconut trees have fibrous root systems.

Detailed explanation-5: -carrot, (Daucus carota), herbaceous, generally biennial plant of the Apiaceae family that produces an edible taproot. Among common varieties root shapes range from globular to long, with lower ends blunt to pointed. Besides the orange-coloured roots, white-, yellow-, and purple-fleshed varieties are known.