Corn was first grown by Native Americans. It is used as food and many other products.
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Corn (''Zea mays'') was first grown by Native Americans. It is used as food and many other products.
It can be grown for both a cash crop and nourishment for people and livestock.
It can be grown for both a cash crop and nourishment for people and livestock.
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In 1983, [[Barbara McClintock]] won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for studies of the genetics of corn, specifically her 1948 discovery of mobile genetic elements in the corn genome.