Rhizome of ginger is like the roots of other plants that grows underground. Despite this fact ginger is a stem and not a root. Justify.
Rhizome of ginger is like the roots of other plants that grows underground. Despite this fact ginger is a stem and not a root. Justify.
$\rightarrow$ Adventitious roots are produced from lower surface of node. It is not root because root does not possess nodes or internodes.
$\rightarrow$ Moreover rhizome does not work as root like fixation and absorption, it does food storage. These all characteristics show that Ginger is a stem but not root.
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Identify the correct set of statements :
$(a)$ The leaflets are modified into pointed hard thorns in Citrus and Bougainvillea
$(b)$ Axillary buds form slender and spirally coiled tendrils in cucumber and pumpkin
$(c)$ Stem is flattened and fleshy in Opuntia and modified to perform the function of leaves
$(d)$Rhizophora shows vertically upward growing roots that help to get oxygen for respiration
$(e)$ Subaerially growing stems in grasses and strawberry help in vegetative propagation
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