SCIENCE
BOTANY
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Potato
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Sweet potato
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Brinjal
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Pea
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Detailed explanation-1: –So, In Ipomoea-batatas/sweet potato the food is stored in the Root tuber. Hence, the correct answer is option (A).
Detailed explanation-2: -Unlike the potato, which is a tuber, or thickened stem, the sweetpotato that we eat is the storage root of the plant; an enlarged lateral root.
Detailed explanation-3: -A potato tuber is a modified stem, while the sweet potato storage organ is a modified root. However, sweet potato and potato are both starch accumulating crops. Their starch storage organs are of relatively large volume, non-photosynthetic, and undesiccated.
Detailed explanation-4: -In potato plants, the food is stored in the underground parts of the plant. The potato is a stem that grows under the soil surface and stores all the food that is prepared by the leaves of the plant.
Detailed explanation-5: -Sweet potato is a dicot plant from the family Convolvulaceae. It is an example of an adventitious root and is a modified form of tuberous roots.