Botanical Drawings (IMAGE)

Penn State

Botanical Drawings

Caption

These are drawings of teosinte and maize show large differences in the two plants, but the origin of maize occurred with changes in only a few teosinte genes and hybridization and backcrossing occurred frequently.

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A'ndrea Elyse Messer/Penn State

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