Question

"Sweet potato tubers and potato tubers are the result of convergent evolution." Justify the statement

Answer 1

Convergent evolution is a topic of evolutionary biology which can be described as the process where some diverse organisms individually develop the traits which are similar in functions.

For example, sweet potato tubers and potato tubers. Both of them are underground fleshy structures which perform the functions of storage of food and vegetative reproduction but both are different in origin i.e., sweet potato is an adventitious root and potato tuber is an underground stem.