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French fries, tater tots, crispy chips… We humans derive a lot of value from the underground tuber of Solanum tuberosum . Yet, some of its closest relatives don’t have tubers for us to eat. So, how did the potato come about? Turns out, we owe this starchy goodness to tomatoes. Potatoes are the underground tubers of the potato plant ( Solanum tuberosum ). The tubers are modified stems that store food for the plant, and is used to grow another potato plant asexually. Yet some of its closest...

Tigers, cats, and dogs. Two are obviously more related than the other. But what about hamsters, rats and hedgehogs? How are mushrooms...

We have all heard of cells. The building block of life that everyone is made out of. It does everything from transporting oxygen, to...