A potato is cut into small pieces and are placed on a wet cotton kept in a tray. After a few days Green shoots and roots appear only from some potato pieces and not from all. Why?

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The pieces of potato that bear nodes only can give rise to new plant by producing shoots and roots. But the pieces not bearing nodes cannot produce new plants. Thus from a whole potato only some pieces that bear nodes give rise to roots and shoots.

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