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Because it has both male and female flowers on the same plant.
Because it has both male and female flowers on the same plant.
Maize, or corn, is a grass. Grasses are monocots that have relatively small flowers that are difficult to notice, but they're there. The scientific name is Zea mays and it is in the grass family, Poaceae.
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No, maize is a C4 plant.
maize flower is unisexual. The male flowers are produced on the tassel and female flowers in the cob.
The plant's name refers to the helmet-shaped calyx on the outer whorl of the plant's tiny flowers. The flowers range in color from blue to pink.
Maize plant is a monocot belonging to grass family. It is C4 plant metabolically.
Male and female flowers are small and greenish in color and grow on separate plants.
Maize or corn is a monocotyledonous flowering plant. At the top of the stalk is the tassel which represents the cluster of male flowers. The female part is the "cob" that emerges from the axil of a leaf. Maize actually produces ears of corn. The ear consists of the grains of corn attached to the cob, the silk that transfers the pollen to the grains and the shuck that protects the rest of the ear.
It is a tall, about 6 ft stalk with a maize head, or corn cob containing seeds and corn silk.
No evidence has proven that alien races exist, but if they do they may have plant-based characteristics (i.e. trees, flowers, cacti, etc.).