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Sweet potato is homologous to

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a

Ginger

b

Turnip

c

Colocasia

d

Potato

answer is D.

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Sweet potato and turnip are root modifications. Sweet potato is a type of adventitious roots, which is modified to store food materials. The edible tuberous root is long and tapered. Turnip is a type of tap root. Ginger, potato, Colocasia are underground stem modifications for food storage. Both have the same function but different structure and thus are called as homologous.

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