At least 30 of these viruses can be sexually transmitted. HPV transmission occurs easily among sexual partners. This is evidenced by the fact that at least 50 percent of sexually active men and women acquire a genital HPV infection at some point in their lives.
A farm worker corrals cranberries in a bog during a harvest. Every schoolchild learns that the Pilgrims couldn't have survived life in the New World without the help of the Indians. The tribes taught them which crops to plant. They introduced them to corn and other nutritional mainstays. One of these, the American cranberry, is still part of the classic Thanksgiving feast.
Maize (/ËmeÉªz/ MAYZ; Zea mays subsp. mays, from Spanish: maiz maÃ­z After taino), taÃ­no mahiz known In-some english speaking countries, as corn is a large grain plant domesticated by indigenous Peoples in mesoamerica in. prehistoric times primitive corn was being grown in southern Mexico, Central America, and northern South America 7,000 years ago. Archaeological remains of early maize ears, found at Guila Naquitz Cave in the Oaxaca Valley, date back roughly 6,250 years; the oldest ears from caves near Tehuacan, Puebla, date ca. 3,450 BC.