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Corn

a species of tall cereal grass, zea mays, grown for its seed and used as food and animal fodder. It is also called maise or indian corn. It is a plant of the genus zea of the family gramineae (poaceae), originating in the americas.


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Re: Odd food poisoning-like symptoms, strange tastes

Just a thought, but in 1999, around 30% of corn was genetically modified. I've heard others talk about this and it stopped when they stopped eating GMO corn. Further points of interest are the GMO corn fed pigs who have exploded barns when their ...

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by dawnnoelle
Fri Sep 14, 2012 6:25 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Odd food poisoning-like symptoms, strange tastes
Replies: 28
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Re: Theories - Origin of Life

Now that the Olympics and paralympics are over I am able to put away my armchair and pop corn and continue. :) One of the reasons I was amused at the wiki statement that a gene evolves via natural selection has to do with their understanding of what a gene is. Their ...

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by scottie
Thu Sep 13, 2012 11:43 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Theories - Origin of Life
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Plant hormone experiment!

Got given a practice prac on plant hormones. Method: 1. Place 8 corn seeds (with 2 each facing towards the 4 poles, so North, East, South, West). 2. Cover seeds with a piece of filter paper 3. Pack petri dish with moist cotton wool. 4. Put lid on the petri ...

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by duherro
Mon May 07, 2012 7:07 am
 
Forum: Botany Discussion
Topic: Plant hormone experiment!
Replies: 17
Views: 3185

Determining (P) plants from F2 data

... where to go with this. We have not done any reverse problems like this and I am lost. Here is the problem from the lab: Materials: F2 generation corn ears (dihybrid cross) Proceedure Two breeding parental (P) corn strains were crossed by dusting the flowers of one strain with the polen of the ...

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by aiyana1228
Mon Mar 19, 2012 3:36 am
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: Determining (P) plants from F2 data
Replies: 1
Views: 899

Re: Odd food poisoning-like symptoms, strange tastes

... cause the symptoms you are all complaining about and there is a simple test you can do ! first off it is very easy to confuse the Eggy-sulphur-pop-corn taste with Ammonia ! when the body eats and ingests acidic foods like wine, coffee,potato-chips and pop-corn etc.. your giving the bacterium the ...

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by ElieSiag
Wed Feb 29, 2012 9:31 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Odd food poisoning-like symptoms, strange tastes
Replies: 28
Views: 52381
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