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प्रश्न
Rhizome of ginger is like the roots of other plants that grows underground. Despite this fact ginger is a stem and not a root. Justify.
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उत्तर
The rhizome is an underground stem growing parallel to the soil surface. Ginger is a stem which can be differentiated from the root as it has nodes and internodes.
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