Domesticated from teosinte ("tee-uh-sint"), for 10 points, name this main staple food of the Pre-Columbian Americas, which grows in cobs.
One theory believes that this organism was first created using Tripsacum. The MFAC hypothesis is being questioned due to the possible use of this organism in towns such as Aspero and Caral. Discovering its "controlling elements," Barbara (*) McClintock's main research was on this organism. Erosion from the planting of this crop hastened the fall of Cahokia. This staple food grows using C4 carbon fixation and is in the polyculture known as the Three Sisters. Domesticated from teosinte ("tee-uh-sint"), for 10 points, name this main staple food of the Pre-Columbian Americas, which grows in cobs.
One theory believes that this organism was first created using Tripsacum.
maize [accept corn] &lt;DM&gt;