Question

The starch is insoluble in water, still it is stored in potato in more quantity

• A. By microbes
• B. Because it is manufacture in tuber
• C. Because plants use it as a food
• D. Because first it come to tuber as sugar solution then it is stored as starch

Answer 1

The correct option is D Because first it come to tuber as sugar solution then it is stored as starch

Sugars are synthesized in leaves and stored in other parts like seed, root, stem. In a potato, sugars are synthesized in leaves and then transported to tuber for storage. Sugars are usually synthesized in hexose form but translocated as sucrose which are soluble in water and stored as starch in tuber.

Thus, the correct answer is option D.