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Lesson: Chapter 14 — Continuity of Life

14.2. Natural vegetative propagation 5 of 7

Question 5

How does a bulbil differ from a bulb?

The right answer is the one marked above.

A bulbil detaches from the plant to start a new one; a bulb stays where it is. An onion is a bulb — an underground stem. The air potato's small aerial tubers are bulbils.

“A bulbil grows underground; a bulb grows above ground” has it backwards: it is the bulb that is underground. Neither structure carries seeds, and both are asexual, so the answers about seeds and about sexual production are wrong on both counts.

Answer the question to continue.