Question

Amyloplasts store
A) Glycogen
B) Starch
C) Fat
D) Protein

Answer 1

Hint: It is a polymer made by the plant to store energy. To grow plants need energy. Plants usually made it in their seeds and organs like grains and tubers. It's formation takes place through photosynthesis.

Complete step by step answer:
Amyloplast - it is an organelle that is found in a plant cell. Plastids usually produce and store starch in the internal membrane compartments of a plant cell.
- This is basically found in vegetative plant tissues like tubers in potatoes, bulbs, etc.
- It is a leucoplast whose primary function is involved in storing starch and to detect gravity.
- Storing of starch is done by the polymerization of glucose. Amyloplast converts glucose into starch. Then they store starch grains in the stroma.

- Many of the amyloplasts can be observed in the underground storage tissue such as in Potato.
So, the correct answer is, "Starch".

Additional information:
Glycogen - it is a large branched polysaccharide. It is the main storage form of glucose, stored in animals and humans. It is also very important for giving energy whenever required by the body. Firstly glycogen breaks down into glucose then it enters into the glycolytic phosphate pathway and then releases into the bloodstream.
- it is also important in fungi and bacteria, to store glucose.
Fat - plants also have fat molecules. These molecules make various components of organelles like mitochondria and chloroplast. Plants also store fat in the form of carbohydrates. It stores starch in Amyloplast and chloroplast.
Proteins - in the embryo and vegetative cells, plants generally store protein so that they provide necessary resources like carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur for the growth and development of plants.

Note: The main function of plastids is the synthesis of nutrients and also the storage of biological molecules. In plants generally, plastids consist of four forms - chloroplast, chromoplast, gerontoplasts, and leucoplast.
- Leucoplasts are colorless and "storage” is its primary role. On the basis of the content which the leucoplast contains, it may be amyloplast, elaioplasts, proteinoplasts, or tannosomes.