Biology
11th Edition
ISBN: 9781259188138
Author: Peter H Raven, George B Johnson Professor, Kenneth A. Mason Dr. Ph.D., Jonathan Losos Dr., Susan Singer
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 36, Problem 2S
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The adaptive significance of the potato tubers that are harvested from the wet soil having large lenticels.
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Potato tubers are the modified stem that stores food in it. The potato tuber contains nodes and internodes that bear scale leaves with axillary buds present on it. These axillary buds are commonly known as eyes.
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