Before Selective Breeding: Fruits and Vegetables That Look Out of This World
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Corn
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Thanks to genetics, we can learn what corn looked like before selective breeding. Its wild ancestor is believed to be a plant called ‘teosinte.’ Corn cobs found by archaeologists over time show that corn used to be much smaller.
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