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The carrot (Daucus carota subsp. sativus) is a root vegetable, usually orange or white, or red-white blend in color, with a crisp texture when fresh. The edible part of a carrot is a taproot. It is a domesticated form of the wild carrot Daucus carota, native to Europe and southwestern Asia. It has been bred for its greatly enlarged and more palatable, less woody-textured edible taproot, but is still the same species.
It is a biennial plant which grows a rosette of leaves in the spring and summer, while building up the stout taproot, which stores large amounts of sugars for the plant to flower in the second year. The flowering stem grows to about 1 m tall, with an umbel of white flowers.
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∙ 10y agoWhen you eat a carrot you are eating the root of a plant.
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What part of a plant is a carrot?
the carrot is located under the earth attached to the leaves sprouting from the earth.
What plant exhibits taproot system?
There are many plants with tap roots, including the carrot, beet and SUNFLOWER.
What can plants do that animals can't?
plants can make there own food but animals cannot
Do consumers eat plants?
Yes; they make their own food, whereas consumers (such as animals) have to eat producers (either directly, by eating plants, or indirectly, through eating another organism that eats plants) to gain energy. Plants are producers they get energy from the sun and animals eat it and becomes body heat of course.
What is a aniamal that eats plants and aniamals?
If it only eats plants it is a Herbivore If it eats both plants and plant eating animals it is an omnivore If it eats only animals and does not eat plants it is a carnivore
When you eat a carrot what part are you eating?
eating a root
What do gasshopper eat?
Grasshoppers eat many plants, and they love eating at the plants in the garden.
Is there any plant eating plants?
Potentially, but it depends upon your definition of "eating". Parasitic plants "eat" other plants.
What are you eating when you eat the food from plants?
When you are eating plants, you are eating the sugars that the plant created from sunlight. Some plants have edible leaves, other have edible stalks or roots. Others create fruits for us to eat.
Should you eat parsnips?
It's just like a carrot and people have been eating them since Moses.
Do crickets eat plants?
yes as crickets are herbivores (i.e plant eating) so they eat plants
Is a carrot a carnivore?
A vegetable is a plant and plants are alive.
How do plants depend on animal to survive?
Meat eating animals depend on plants to survive because the herbivores eat plants and the meat eating animals eat them so if the plants die out, then the herbivores die out, the meat eating animals will die too, because they have nothing to eat.
What part of a plant is a carrot?
the carrot is located under the earth attached to the leaves sprouting from the earth.
When you eat both plants and animals what is that called?
Omnivore is when you are able to eat and digest plants and animals. Herbivores are organisms that are limited to just eating plants. And carnivores are limited to only eating animals (meat).
Why do animals eat and why do plants not eat?
Technically, plants do eat, you just don't see them eating. Animals get their energy from eating other organisms (plants, other animals, etc.), while plants get their energy from the sun and undergo photosynthesis which results in energy for the plant, or their 'food'
How is the energy of the sun transferred through a food web?
The sun allow plants to photosynthesis which is to make food and grow. The plants eating animals will eat them and then the meat eating animals will eat animals. Then us humans will eat the animals and plants.
