Sweet potato is homolgous to

Sweet potato is homolgous to
  1. potato
  2. colocasia
  3. ginger
  4. turnip

Solution

Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) and turnip (Brassica rapa) both are roots. However, sweet potato is tuberous adventitious root while turnip is napiform tap root.

Asked in: NEET 2011 (Mains)

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