[DOC] [TLE] Jeopary Questions page 1869 - COMMUNICATION - TriviaBistro.com [PAR] ANCIENT HISTORY: About 7,000 years ago Mexican Indians improved this crop, 
notably the size of its ears  BRAVE WORDS: This 20th century novelist defined... [DOC] [TLE] Evolution of Corn - Genetics - University of Utah [PAR] Ancient farmers in what is now Mexico took the first steps in domesticating maize 
... show the evolution of modern maize over thousands of years of selective 
breeding. ... of teosinte-corn hybrids and observed the characteristics of their 
offspring. ... the most-notable differences between teosinte and a primitive strain 
of maize. [DOC] [TLE] The Story of Corn - History Detective - In the Beginning - Camp Silos [PAR] Scientists believe people living in central Mexico developed corn at least 7000 
years ago. It was started from a wild grass called teosinte. Teosinte looked very... [DOC] [TLE] NATIVE AMERICANS or AMERICAN INDIANS [PAR] The Native Americans had lived in America for thousands of years when the first 
.... They also hunted other plains animals, notably elk, deer, and antelope. ...... 
During their centuries of living together in villages the Pueblo Indians improved 
their skills. ..... culture of eastern North America dates from 3,000 to 7,000 years 
ago. [DOC] [TLE] Mexicans Fear for Corn, Imperiled by Free Trade - NYTimes.com [PAR] Jul 12, 1993 ... 5 so they planted in May, the fifth month, and their corn is almost three feet high. 
... but whether such changes represent improvements in the quality of life or a ... a 
tiny ear of corn 7,000 years ago and plant them the next season, Mexico ... that 
many farmers who once grew other crops have switched to corn. [DOC] [TLE] Early Cultures [PAR] However, the origins of American Indian people are more difficult to prove and 
involve ... Western science based its theory on objective physical evidence or the 
lack of ... favored plants to improve various features such as taste, access and 
size. ... developed in the Tehuacan Valley, Puebla, Mexico about 7,000 years 
ago. [DOC] [TLE] Breeding for Rust Resistance in Corn - The Affluent Peasant [PAR] Domestication of corn began over 7,000 years ago in the area that is now Mexico
. ... Occassionally in corn breeding programs, small ears of corn are found that ... 
There is evidence from plant remains found in dry caves in Mexico that shows ... 
a lot of diversity in its background even though many plants in the population will
... [DOC] [TLE] Convergent evolution and parallelism in plant domestication ... [PAR] Apr 29, 2014 ... Crop plants are the predominant domesticated species in most ... Among 
domestication traits, nonshattering cereal ears evolved more quickly in general 
than seed size. .... these crops over wild nuts only happened after 2,000 y ago (
37). ... Balsas region of Mexico at 8700 B.P. suggest that the domestication... [DOC] [TLE] Neglected crops: 1492 from a different perspective - Food and ... [PAR] priorities, designing new projects for researching and improving these crops and 
planning ...... Indians abandoned either because of the con- ... Notable failures 
have also ...... fields, although its fruit was the size of modem ... in Mexico about 2 
200 years ago; another very ...... this species, different ear colours are found: red,. [DOC] [TLE] Peru facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about ... [PAR] For 40 years thereafter, Peru paid many of its bills by exporting guano to 
exhausted .... Of the 47 million sierra Amerindians under Inca domination, fewer 
than one million .... Perhaps as early as 6,000 years ago, the first primitive 
farmers appeared. ..... It improved labor market efficiency by addressing tenure 
regulations and... [DOC] [TLE] Corn production in the tropics; the Hawaii experience - ctahr [PAR] Key to corn ears shown. 1 Reventador ... 14 Chapalote (Anazasi Indian corn, 
bronze). 15 Teopod ... with an optimism that Hawaii's corn production and its ... 
seed industry and of the Hawaii Crop Improvement As- ..... Mexico 5000 to 7000 
years ago, and it soon spread into ... equator toAlaska, in many shapes and sizes
. [DOC] [TLE] A History of Utah's American Indians, Chapter 5 - Utah Department ... [PAR] Aug 29,

Question: About 7,000 years ago Mexican Indians improved this crop, notably the size of its ears
Answer: Corn