How are rhizomes different from rhizoids?

Answer 1

Every plant has root system(under groud parts) & shoot system(aerial parts like stem, leaf,flower, etc).

Roots are the parts of root system, brown in colour, have no vegetative buds, nodes & internodes; present in all plants. root take part in absorption of water and minerals from the soil mainly.

Rhizomes are the underground modified stems. They grow parellel to the earth surface, having nodes & inter nodes as stem; brown in colour, have shoot buds. but they have scale leafs instead of green leafs. Rhizomes take part in storage of food meterial & vegetative propagation.

Answer 2

Rhizoid is root like organ but not exactly root . Lower plants like mosses and fungi develop these rhizoids to do functions similar to roots of higher plants .

Rhizome is an underground stem of a plant that is usually fleshy and used for vegetative propagation ( ginger and turmeric

Answer 3

One of the most obvious differences is that, unlike true roots, rhizoids can't stretch for far distances underground, which means that if the rhizoid does not take root near a reliable water source with other nutrients, it's done for.

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Answer 4

Rhizoid is a single celled absorptive structure of lower plants like liverworts where as root is multicellular organ having root hairs for absorption in higher plants.