Parts of a Plant
Category : 3rd Class
Parts of a Plant
Look at the following picture of different parts of a plant:
Parts of Plant used as Food
We eat roots of radish, carrot, sweat potato, turnip, beetroot etc. Spinach, mint, cabbage, coriander etc. are leaves where food is stored and which is « used as a source of food. Cauliflower and broccoli are flowers eaten as food. Papaya, mango, orange, guava, banana plants store food in their fruits.
Look at the following table to understand the edible parts of the plants:
| Name of plants | Edible parts | Edible raw or cooked |
| Bringle | Fruit | Cooked |
| Potato | Stem | Cooked |
| Apple | Fruit | Raw |
| Radish | Root | Both raw and cooked |
| Spinach | Leaves | Cooked |
Pea is which one of the following parts of pea plant?
(a) Fruit
(b) Seed
(c) Flower
(d) Leaf
(e) Stem
Answer: (b)
Explanation
Seed of pea plant is used as food. Therefore, option B is correct and rest of the options is incorrect.
Ayush has drunk sugar cane juice. Which part of the sugarcane plant produces juice?
(a) Root (b) Leaf
(c) Stem (d) Fruit
(e) Flower
Answer: (c)
Explanation
Juice is extracted from the stem of sugarcane plant. Therefore, option (c) is correct and rest of the options is incorrect.
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