Question

Long silky hair coming out of the cob of maize are
A)Meant for fruit dispersal
B)Meant for attracting insects
C)Meant for protecting seeds
D)Long style and stigma

Answer 1

Maize, are also named as corn (American English), is a cereal grain first domesticated around 10,000 years ago in southern Mexico by indigenous peoples. The plant's leafy stalk gives rise to pollen inflorescences and separate ovular inflorescences termed ears that possess fruit kernels or seeds.

Complete answer:
Stigma maydays, the glossy, thread-like, weak fibres that are produced as a part of the ears of corn ( maize); the tuft or tassel of silky fibres coming out from the tip of the ear of corn, is a common name given to corn silk. In modified leaves, named as husks, the ear is enclosed. An elongated style, that remains connected to an individual ovary, is each individual fibre.

The word probably has been established sometime between 1850 and 1855.
Corn silk is kind of stigma and part style, giving a female surface of the flower to which pollen grains may stick and specifying the long path along which their genetic material must be carried by the pollen.

The very tip of the corn silk, which shows a greater number of hairs to enable pollen to stick to it, is the stigma. Kernel formation in the cob constitutes wind or insect pollination of the outer corn silk.

Typically, many pollen grains connect, but only one can show participation successfully in the ovule fertilisation to produce a maize kernel. The moisture of freshly coming out maize silk often attracts insects, which can cause silk clipping, which can interfere with the formation of the kernel.

Maize is observed to be a monocot plant that, through the air, carries out its pollination.
So it may be said as the stigma and style of the female portion that are long, sticky and hairy as the pollen can be collected and reproduced.

Hence, the correct answer is option (D)

Note: Corn silk gives rise to a number of compounds that are pharmacologically active and is used as such in several forms of folk medicine, including as a diuretic and as a melanin development inhibitor.