Potatoes do not produce starch . Yet they are full of it . How is it possible
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Answer:
starch is a carbohydrate, a compound made of carbon,oxygen and hydrogen. It is made by the plant for the storage of energy, kind of like we store fat in our bodies for energy reserves.
Explanation:
Potatoes contain carbohydrates which contains starch therefore potatoes also contains starch
Answer:starch is a carbohydrate, a compound made of carbon,oxygen and hydrogen. It is made by the plant for the storage of energy, kind of like we store fat in our bodies for energy reserves.
Plants have leaves which capture energy from the sun, but the potato itself has no leaves.It is kind of like a bulb of a daffodil or onion in that it is the way that the plant survives over winter. It uses the stored energy in the starch for food [energy] until the newly growing plant is big enough so that the leaves can supply what it needs.
I think it's because they are plants, so photosynthesise to produce glucose. However, they don't use all of this glucose at once, so they use hormones/enzymes to convert the glucose into a starch