Question

Give‌ ‌an‌ ‌illustrated‌ ‌description‌ ‌of‌ ‌maize‌ ‌grain‌ ‌or‌ ‌gram‌ ‌seed.‌

Answer 1

Hint: Maize is one of the major staple foods throughout the world, and it contains one only seed and it is yellow in color externally and triangular in shape. At one side of the grain, it has a small opaque oval-shaped whitish structure, in which the embryo stays.

Complete answer:
Maize is commonly called corn and it is a cereal food.
Along with wheat and rice, maize is also a major staple food which people are consuming throughout the world.
Usually, maize is consumed by humans directly and it is also used for corn ethanol, corn starch, and corn syrup and also for animal feed.
The maize plant is usually 3 meters in length and some naturally grow up to the length of 13 meters.
And this maize plant contains the internodes.
It consists of a female inflorescence.
In maize, they have an elongated stigma called silks are present and it has also had seeds that are just fused with the coat called a caryopsis.
These maize plants are short-day plants and are affected by the photo periodicity.
Immature maize shoots produce the accumulation of a large amount of powerful antibiotic substances and this is helpful naturally against the several types of pests and insects.
When it comes to the color of the maize, the yellow color is due to the presence of lutein and zeaxanthin. And in some maize, the kernels are red in color and it is due to anthocyanins.

Note:
Sometimes in maize flowers mutations occur and it may lead to the formation of female flowers in the inflorescence, and sometimes it may promote like this and formation of pistil take place and it may produce both male and female or hermaphrodite flowers in the inflorescence.