Question

NCERT VI Social Sciences

Why are radishes, carrots, beetroots, and sweet potatoes thick, fleshy and bulging? Which part of the plant do they form?

Answer 1

Radishes, carrots, beetroots, and sweet potatoes are thick, fleshy and bulging because they are used  for storage purpose. Food is stored in them as starch. These are modified roots.

Answer 2

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❇ Radishes, carrots, beetroots and sweet potatoes are thick , fleshy and bulging.

❇This is due to storage of food materials.

❇These are biennial plants , in which the food materials synthesized in the first year is stored in the roots ,due to which it gets bulged and become Tuberous.

❇The food stores in the roots is then utilised for metabolism in the second year.

❇ It's a root modification in which the roots are modified to store food materials.

❇In carrot, radish, beetroot ....the tap root is modified to store food .

❇In Sweet potato, the Adventitious root is modified to store food.


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