Popped Secret: The Mysterious Origin of Corn - HHMI BioInteractive Video 

Man you ain't kidding I was just in Michoacana Mexico near Uruapan and there's miles an miles of avocados there but no it's corn

@Esco G NO, Chocolate

Mexico gave the world corn, turkey meat, cocoa (chocolate) vanilla, avocados, tomatoes, pumpkins, tequila, tobacco, chia, papaya, amaranth, hot peppers and beans

@@martincito1662 when?

@Esco G ALSO

It's right up there with Carlos Santana!

Corn is the worst thing we have ever made it destroys our gut

@@freedeeztallbikes82 LOL, you have no idea what you’re saying. It changed the world forever. And developed many civilizations, it feeds most animals we consume.

@@pablovi77 En Perú 🇵🇪💯 maize consume , Chicha morada ; Nuestros antepasados los Indios lo consumían . In PERÚ 🇵🇪 se prepara la chicha de jora 🍻 . En PIURA -SULLANA la preparación es muy buena , también el CLARITO🥂 Saludos cordiales a Uds , desde PERÚ 🇵🇪🌎 Me gusto el vídeo.

​@@freedeeztallbikes82 Only from corn syrup because soda companies n shit are too cheap to use sugar. And it is one of the three most important seeds of the word for many reasons that I'm sure you're too ignorant to read.

Corny pun.

😅😅😅

Dam i get it 5 years later

good Cob(Job) on the pun!

Gonzalo Viramontes de niño yo jugaba con los teocintles que salían en el jardín. Parecían dientes.

@Astute Cingulus 50 years from now America will be brown again

@Astute Cingulus I seen a person get deported on a Friday back on a Sunday at work on time on a Monday

​@@vatolocosforever803😂

yea, its not like they had microscopes or any other tools needed for artificial selection

@@theconsciousmovement9669 you do not need any special tools for artificial selection: just means to carry pollen for human-run cross pollination and the common sense to select only the best types.

@@brandonsingh1721 so.. what did they cross it with since Maize did not exist? (and they supposedly were grinding on stones)

@@CacaoJunajpu has anyone answered yet ,cos that was my ? and ive watched it over to make sure io didnt miss it.where did the corn come from to cross .i get natural selection etc but in science it must be repeatable.

@@claudegrayson7039 I really dont know if it´s still relevant but they crossed it with other plant of the same species. Like breeding two dogs together to get a property you´d like to have. Changes in genes usually happen randomly - that´s why it´s not guaranteed to be repeatable in a lab. You could potentially cross individuals for hundreds of generations and not get a single mutation or a mutation in a part of the gene that doesn´t actually do anything. So basically back in the day those ancient people just kept planting the seeds of the best plants of teosinte until they randomly got a mutation which just happened to be the branching gene etc.

Selective seed saving. Just like gardeners still do today.

​@@deecarlock5781 I'm no expert, but I'd imagine it could be that they were just like "hey these ones for some reason are a lot more like what we want to grow (easier, fuller, larger, whatever), let's plant these seeds." And then over a long enough period of time it just sort of happens. It's important for people to know that it's not exactly a linear process and it's VERY long.

Glad it was helpful!

@@biointeractive Please make more. ❤️

Es el maíz gigante del valle del Urubamba en el Cuzco.

we have that here in mexico too, we called "maiz pozolero" and many others

Jesus didn't look like that.

That's Santa!

Jesus wasn't while he was brown or black but definitely not while.

Bio Jesus

Gods son is black, a white man can't survive in the motherland where the sun will kill him

You stole my idea, how could you :,(

LionsTooth You speak horse?

Horses speak english, but the only word they know is nay.

not exactly

You're welcome!

Artificial selection: farmers bred strains of teosinte for favorable traits and turned it into maize. See also: dog breeds.

The old 'similarity proves relatedness' fallacy. It doesn't. It may the case that maise and teosinte were separately created and they are genetically similar enough that they are capable of breeding and producing offspring.

Many thanks!

lol

They had human sacrifices, even better than Netflix.

I don't know about butter, since there were no cows in the age of the Aztecs in Mexico. But they probably did enjoy their popcorn while they were viewing the movement of the stars and the universe....But....without a remote control.

Anglo Germany also practiced human sacrifices but they used gas chambers and trains to kill millions of innocent men, woman and children.

No tarda en venir algún peruano a decir que esos productos son de peru.

@@jasonrazojazo 😂

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No, You can't!!!!

as in the corn that's resistant to round up. that had round up inside of it that we eventually eat that's the GMO people are talking about not just that the actual plant is different

who is the mother?

No es cierto, son especies distintas.

Glad you think so!

Corn refers to grain, except in US. Maiz refers to corn, except in US.

you correctly said that scientists did not find traces of intermediate types of corn. It's all pseudoscience. Corn was given to us by the creators of our civilization.

They bred teocinte, then selected plants with random mutations that had traits they wanted, then bred those together, repeat repeat repeat, you have corn.

Teosinte was edible on its own -- popped or milled with stones, or popped and then milled. So they were growing that and some mutations showed up and people figured out artificial fertilization (one of those ideas that only needs one person to discovered human pollenation and then everyone starts trying it). Corn is wind pollinated -- so doing hand pollination and then protecting the corn from further pollination (pulling silks, bagging developing corn) would insure your corn was the cross you wanted. (Farmers and gardeners are advised to plant different strains of corn separated by some distance).

They just selected for the traits they wanted.

@@biointeractive Thanks for your reply! It does not sound very plausible though.

Uh, did you watch the movie? Strains of teosinte with desirable traits were bred together over time to gradually obtain the corn we know today.

Did you watched the video?

+Viorel Ianasi There is natural variation in the teosinte population from which the ancient peoples could have selectively bred teosinte so that the next generation looked slightly different from its wild ancestor. Continue selecting and breeding for the traits you want and after time you get a plant that looks totally different from its ancestor. This is the way all domestication happened and is happening. It's just artificial selection.

+mtuholski Thanks! :)

Ha ha ha ha ha!

Thanks for letting us know--fixed!

Bravo.

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Favorable traits of one type of teosinte bred with favorable traits from a second. See also: dogs

There might be some info here... Races of Maize in Peru: Their Origins, Evolution and Classification By Alexander Grobman books.google.co.uk/books?id=dD4rAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA57#v=onepage&q&f=false

So, POPCORN came first, and then Maize. ;) What movies were they watching back then??? :D

Teosinte grows from northern Mexico to Nicaragua.

Very simple; Mexicoooooo!!🤔🙄

Spy Door Man 😖 Your question is disingenuous. Of course early humans had no knowledge of genes. Neither did modern humans until the 20th century. Therefore, early farmers had to rely on a combination of randomness and observation to guide them. Over time they would have gained enough experience to focus on the plants that served the purpose of providing more edible kernels. In that way we should give much credit to the persistence and tenacity of these people to eventually create the maize plants we see today.

It happened by selecting mutated grains over a period of thousands of years.

The same way different types of potatoes are produced. You crossbreed plants by letting them flower and adding pollen of one plant to the stigma of the other, letting them seed and planting the seeds to see the changes in some of the resulting plants.

It's all teosinte. Favorable traits of one type of teosinte bred with favorable traits from a second.

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By gathering seeds, planting them, picking the ones that grew larger and softer kernels and planting them again.

usually size. its the easiest trait to notice and select. then probably number of kernals, which would be a rare mutation, so its good that when it occurred they jumped on it cause rare-type mutations are easily one time occurrences and easily missed. then probably the soft shell vs. the hard shell.

Galileo Rubio palabra! saludos, Chichimecātl aqui

So true 😁😁😁

"supposed", "meant"? who gave corn its original purpose?

livestock¿¿ ancient mexicans had no horses, no cows, no donkeys, not even goats, no chicken

You give them too much credit...! These were "primitive" people...; they weren't genealogists. It is really "Mother Nature" who did most of the work. For the most part, it was a natural process with natural progression. All they did was to sow the seeds in great quantities and optimizing the growing conditions for the plants in order to maximize their crop. One plant in 5'000 perhaps producing a genetic variant. And they saved the seeds of this one plant because it produced more kernels, or bigger kernels or kernels with softer outer casings or ones that were partially exposed and easier to consume. Come to think of it, it was really the Creator God who designed and control the DNA and the various genes and functions who deserve all the credit...! (and the God who gave man the understanding to take advantage of it). Thus, the real "genius" is God the Creator for "intelligent design"! Perhaps e will award Him a "Nobel Prize" one day (or simply thank and acknowledge Him for His provision).

@@danielcoetzee5793 Our God did give us maize and the wisdom to genetically modify a “grass,” into Maize, but our God not whom your God is. Yes credit to whom credit deserves…Our Gods, Our Land, Our Mother Earth and Our People. 🤷🏻‍♀️

@@dominiquelasalle9860 Pardon me for "raining on your parade" and for taking away your sunshine and for casting a shadow on your hallowed ground...!: or rather don't pardon me because it is not yours to begin with ! I know you'd like to take credit for being "God's gift to mankind" and for giving mankind the gift of maize through your "wisdom", but you'll be foolish to do so! For my God IS is your God....! He is the One God to whom all "gods" bow down. You may not acknowledge this now, but one day every knee shall bow and every tongue confess (including yours) that He alone is God over all...! Peace to you !

@@danielcoetzee5793Navajo prayer is spreading corn pollen. Navajo ritual is spreading pollen on mountain.

It's really not that big a deal. You pick the best to use as seed stock. Fancy guppies were selectively bred from wild form guppies. I've had wild caught Convict Cichlids produce sports. The more inbreeding, the more likely mutations will show up, also.