The corn that we eat today _______.

The correct answer is: Was created through selective breeding of the teosinte plant

• About 10,000 years ago, at the beginning of human agriculture, maize cultivation has been started.
• When early Mexican farmers decided to cultivate kernels, they made the earliest domestication of maize. They discovered that not all plants were phenotypically equal.
• It's possible that some plants grew bigger than others, or that some kernels had greater flavors or were easier to crush.
• The farmers kept the kernels from plants that had desirable traits and planted them for the harvest the following season.
• Artificial selection or selective breeding are terms used to describe this technique.
• Over time, maize cobs grew bigger and had more rows of kernels, finally taking on the shape of modern maize.