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The earliest evidence for kissing, and engineering crops to clone themselves

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How to Make a Hybrid Corn Plant

With hybrid corn, you do it. It's relatively easy. You go out into the field and you cut off the tassels from certain plants so that you can make the hybrid seed. So this is now one of the parents and you make sure that it can't produce its own pollen. That still doesn't involve a helicopter though. No, no, no helicopters are the extreme end. What about wheat or rice? Which one is the helicopter?

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