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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.
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.
In recent years, Monsanto produced and began selling corn seed which has undergone artificial genetic modification. This corn is advertized to grow better, resist disease, and resist Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto's Round-Up and and other herbicides. [[Genetic Engineering|Genetically modified]] corn is estimated to account for at least 90% of the American corn market today.
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