2007-03-01 12:33:21 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Botany
Corn reproduces by cross-pollination
2007-03-01 12:37:32 · answer #1 · answered by aldrin m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Corn is wind-pollinated.
The male flowers produce pollen. These male flowers are part of the tassel that sticks up from the top of the plant. This is an ideal location for the wind to blow the pollen away.
The female flowers are in the part that will become the ear. Each flower has a long stigma that extends out of the corn husks. This stigma is the corn silk.
Pollen lands on the corn silk and grows a pollen tube down to the ovule. Each silk leads to a different ovule.
If there is cross-pollination, that means that the plants are pollinated by pollen that came from a different corn plant. Pretty likely because of the wind.
2007-03-01 12:39:29 · answer #2 · answered by ecolink 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Corn reproduces by cross pollination, usually from wind... What's cool about corn, is that every kernal is an ovual (egg and therefore a different offspring). That's why some corn (like you see at Thanksgiving) has all different colors on the same ear.
2007-03-01 14:50:08 · answer #3 · answered by Bio Instructor 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont know how corn reproduces i just plant what ever corn seeds i have some i have been holding on to and which ever ones i find possible in the tassels at the top maybee ive seen corn so tall it was like 15 feet high some seeds only produce one year and never again some maybee biogeneticly altered indians put dead fish near the corn they plant try planting some for fun in your landscapeing and see which kinds you git
2007-03-05 09:57:27 · answer #4 · answered by peter w 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes corn reproduces by cross pollenation, this means that each corn plant can pollenate another corn plant.
2007-03-01 12:38:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋