Question

You have a basket of vegetables which contains carrot, potato, tomato, ginger, radish, sweet potato. Select two vegetables to represent the correct homologous structures.; A. Potato and sweet potato; B. Carrot and raddish.; C. Potato and carrot; D. Carrot and tomato(All India - 2013)

Answer 1

Explanation:

option a is the correct answer

Answer 2

The correct homologous structure among the given options is - B. Carrot and radish.

Carrot and radish, both are roots of plants. Potato is a modification of stem and is referred to as a tuber.

Tomato is fruit.

Sweet potato is also referred to as tuber but it is a modification of root.

The homologous structure is defined as structures belonging to the same ancestry or having the same basic structure.

Analogous organs differ as they refer to structurally different but functionally similar parts of plants.