Match the plant to its asexual reproductive structure.

• A. Garlic - Corm; Ginger - Rhizome; Potato - Tuber; Strawberry - Stolon
• B. Garlic - Bulb; Ginger - Tuber; Potato - Corm; Strawberry - Runner
• C. Garlic - Rhizome; Ginger - Bulb; Potato - Node; Strawberry - Tuber
• D. Garlic - Tuber; Ginger - Corm; Potato - Rhizome; Strawberry - Frond

Answer: (A)

A plant’s asexual reproduction often uses a storage or spreading structure that the plant itself can grow from, without seeds. Garlic forms a bulb, an underground organ made of fleshy leaves surrounding the central shoot; from the cloves inside, new plants develop. Ginger uses a rhizome, a horizontal underground stem that runs beneath the soil and sends up shoots and roots. Potato is a tuber, a swollen underground stem that stores nutrients and from which new sprouts grow. Strawberry propagates through runners, or stolons, which extend along the ground and form new plants at the nodes.

So the typical matches are garlic with a bulb, ginger with a rhizome, potato with a tuber, and strawberry with a stolon. An option that pairs garlic with a corm would use a slightly different underground storage organ, which is not the usual term for garlic.