We did a lab in Biology, and I couldn't spot any. However, they are plant cells, so I am confused. Thanks, and have a good day!
2006-09-17 12:45:06 · 10 answers · asked by jaykpatel1992 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Oh man, I read answers which are truly WRONG. First of all, I think you refer to the TUBER of the potato plant (the part we eat)¿Right?
Well, It's NOT the fruit, it's a TUBER which come from STOLONS (underground STEMS which get bigger as they get filled with nutrients).
Fruits do HAVE chloroplasts, but them arent's so many ones in the fruit, and their color get hidden by other components like anthocianins or other ones.
Fruits come from the flowers and in the potato plant, the true fruits are like little tomatoes, as long as them are from the same vegetable family (solanaceae).
Now, let's track back to the fact that TUBERS come from underground stems (STOLONS). ¿Have you seen potato stems? Well them are like tomatoe ones ¿Which color them are? ............... Right! Them are green. Then they have chloroplasts.
As long as this stems grow underground the chloroplasts in them aren't so many ones, so them are hard to see. The same happpen with this "Fat stems" (Tubers) which are what you eat.
If you want to try something practicall so you won't forget this fact. Try leaving a potatoe in a place with half light (no too much, not darkness), wait a couple of weeks and look at it. You will notice a greenish color, and as a plus the "eyes" already growing. In fact this last is a most used way to make potatoes to start growing before being sowed in the fileds, so you can go on sowing it in your garden ... so you might even see the flowers and the true fruits.
Hope that helps!
2006-09-17 13:31:46 · answer #1 · answered by Sandro M 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Potato stems and leaves are green. If you leave a potato in the light it will turn green. The green should be trimmed before eating. The potato is a storage tuber. It is the eyes of the potato that are planted to make new potatoes. They get green. So chloroplasts are there somewhere even if they are not doing photosynthesis at the time.
2006-09-17 12:57:03 · answer #2 · answered by science teacher 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The potato that we eat is actually part of the root system, where starch and other compound carbohydrates are stored by the plant. The leaves of the potato plant, above ground, are like any other and have large numbers of chloroplasts. Most of us never think of the part of the plant from which the edible part is derived.
2006-09-17 13:08:11 · answer #3 · answered by Gene Guy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OK, the potato that we eat are the roots of the actual plant. So, there aren't any chloroplasts in the potatoes we eat since they're roots. In the actual plant that we don''t eat (it's toxic), there are chloroplasts just like any other plant.
2016-03-27 06:24:08 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Potatoes are the fruit of the plant, not the leaves, so there aren't any chloroplast in them.
2006-09-17 12:56:25 · answer #5 · answered by fomalhaut 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are plants, but they are the roots or bulbs of the plant. The leaves would have some, but since potatoes grow underground, they don't neen any. They don't get any sunlight down there:) So no, they don't have any.
2006-09-17 12:48:57 · answer #6 · answered by Kiko 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think they should have chloroplast being plant cells...
2006-09-17 13:53:11 · answer #7 · answered by malaysia 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nope. potato is modification of root. so it doesnt has any chloroplast. some fruits that modified by leaves has chloroplast. example jackfruit.
2006-09-17 13:47:54 · answer #8 · answered by richi rasyid 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are plant cells, and should have them. I think you probably made a simple mistake in class.
2006-09-17 12:49:31 · answer #9 · answered by bb 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
might not have had the right amount of dye --too little or too much.
2006-09-17 12:52:44 · answer #10 · answered by sweets 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋