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Why would the potato contain starch?

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it's a plastid. it stores food such as starches, proteins and lipids. it's in most plant cells. it's especially prominent in storage organs such as potato tubers.
A potato plant stores starch in the leucoplasts. The plants store these starches as food and nutrition for the next generation of potatoes.

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Because it has to contain starch

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