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How come a tomato is a fruit while a potato is a vegetable if they belong to the same genus?
Because the classification of fruit or vegetable is determined by humans, the genome is designed by a more significant being.
the tomato has seeds, it develops from the flower while the potato is a tuber and develops from the stalk. as for the above answer, it obviously has no knowledge of biology as all these defenitions are made by humans. Potatoes are tubers.
Neither, potatoes belong to a group of plants known as the Solanaceae family. The family includes Datura (Jimson weed), mandrake, deadly nightshade (belladonna), capsicum (paprika, chili pepper),...