SCIENCE
PLANT KINGDOM
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Branches
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Leaves
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Buds
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Scale leaves and axillary buds
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answer: Potatoes have modified underground stems for food storage. These tubers have pits called eyes which bear axillary buds which can grow into a new plant. Presence of buds, nodes and internodes are characteristic features of this modified stem.
Detailed explanation-2: -Tubers are modified stems that may store starch, as seen in the potato. Tubers arise as swollen ends of stolons, and contain many adventitious or unusual buds (familiar to us as the “eyes” on potatoes).
Detailed explanation-3: -Bulbils. These are modified axillary vegetative or floral buds meant for food storage. They undergo vegetative propagation to form a new plant.
Detailed explanation-4: -Axillary buds are located at the intersection of the leaf and stem of a plant.
Detailed explanation-5: -Scars on the potato represent scale leaf. It bears eyes or buds in its axil. New potato plants grow from these eyes or buds.