1 Urinary incontinence occurs more often in women than in men. Pregnancy, childbirth, and menopause may contribute to urinary incontinence in women. 2  Weak bladder muscles, overactive bladder muscles, and nerve damage may also cause urinary incontinence in women.  Urinary incontinence in women is common and treatable.
The corn tassel is the part of the plant where the pollen comes from, see bottom left picture. The pollen is what is used to actually pollinated the ear of corn which causes the ear of corn to grow.
Through the study of genetics, we know today that corn's wild ancestor is a grass called teosinte. Teosinte doesn't look much like maize, especially when you compare its kernals to those of corn. But at the DNA level, the two are surprisingly alike. They have the same number of chromosomes and a remarkably similar arrangement of genes.