Hermaphrodites would not be able to optimize to the fulfilling both the male and female roles. Finally, you pointed out that the worms do not inbreed. Inbreeding avoidance does not have to be the cause of the hermaphroditism persisting, if the environment/other factors favour hermaphroditism.
Potatoes come from the ground, the edible tubers on the roots of the potato plant (Solanum tuberosum). They are grown in many parts of the world. The Spanish were the first Eu â¦ ropeans to see potatoes. The tubers were cultivated in South America, in Peru and Chile.
NOTE: Although potatoes were called âpotatoes of the Virginiaâ by early English botanists, they were in fact from South America, not the state of Virginia in the United States. The potato was carried on to Italy and England about 1585, to Belgium and Germany by 1587, to Austria about 1588, and to France around 1600.