What is an onion-root or stem?

Question

What is an onion-root or stem?

Answer 1

An onion is a bulb and a bulb is an underground vertical shoot that has modified leaves (or thickened leaf bases) that are used as food storage organs by a dormant plant.

Answer 2

It's a bulb (root)

Answer 3

i think its called a bulb...

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Answer 4

Neither - an onion is actually a modified leaf.

Onion, common name for any of a genus of biennial herbs, of the lily family, native to Asia but cultivated in temperate and subtropical regions for thousands of years. The true onion is a bulb-bearing plant. Its long, hollow leaves with thickened bases make up most of the bulb.

Answer 5

Onion is a bulb with a discoid stem and the circular leaves arranged on the stem. The roots grow from the stem from the lower surface of the stem. The onion bulb is white / pink in color while the aerial leaves are green in colour.  

Answer 6

root is long stem is short

Answer 7

Onion root is different phases of MITOSIS since chromosome are large and dark

Answer 8

an onion actually is actually an underground stem which is a bulb .basically bulb is characterized under stem itself