The Science of Growing Corn

Corn is a productive plant.

• Being lazy
• making lots of fruit, flowers, or whatever we want from it.

• does not grow well

• boring

Scientists modified corn plants by adding DNA.

• Changed

• Deleted

• Copied

• Pasted

It has astoundingly high yields.

• surprisingly
• disappointingly

• expectedly
• normally

Corn is an extremely resilient crop.

• Able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions
• A type of plant species
• A programming language
• A type of rock

The entire system is inherently unsustainable.

• something is very important

• something is very small in size

• something easily to understand

• something passed down from one generation to another

Corn plant can flourish in all kinds of climates.

• to disappear and vanish

• to jump and skip

• to grow and thrive

• to hide and conceal

Corn plant and bean stalk are compatible.

• unable to get along with others

• able to work together or exist together without problems

• very similar in appearance

• causing conflicts

By consolidating crops and focusing on corn, American growers have cut costs.

• making something smaller or weaker

• separating

• breaking something into many pieces

• making something stronger or more secure by bringing together

More diversified farming practices are ideal.

• to make something simple and straightforward

• to focus on one thing exclusively

• to include a variety of different things

• to exclude everything

Soil will be depleted by the two-crop rotation.

• to fill something up

• to remove or use up something, leaving it with less or none

• to organize and arrange

• to create something new