Question

Match the column I with appropriate items from column II.

	Column I		Column II
I.	Ginger	A.	Tuber
II.	Onion	B.	Grafting
III.	Potato	C.	Bulb
IV.	Bryophyllum	D.	Rhizome
		E.	Adventitious buds
		F.	Bulbil

• A. I-D, II-C, III-A, IV-E
• B. I-D, II-F, III-E, IV-C
• C. I-C, II-B, III-A, IV-D
• D. I-D, II-F, III-A, IV-B

Answer 1

The correct option is A I-D, II-C, III-A, IV-E

Rhizomes are knobby underground stems that have pungent and flavorful flesh. Ginger is the most familiar example, other rhizomes include turmeric etc. There are two main types of bulbs. One type, typified by the onion, has a thin papery covering protecting its fleshy leaves. The other type, the scaly bulb. The part of the potato plant we eat is called the tuber, which is actually an enlarged underground stem. Each plant will produce multiple tubers. In Bryophyllum, shoots develop from adventitious buds on the denticles of the leaves.