Difference between revisions of "Corn"

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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.

Revision as of 18:10, February 12, 2007

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.

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.