Vocabulary

• have to: Must do
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• point out: To make others aware of an idea
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• got to: To arrive at some place
• lead to: To result in some action
• look around: To explore a place; search for something.
• at least: As a minimum
• next to: Being located along side another
• go ahead: To start an activity; start doing, working etc.
• regardless of
• assume: To act in a false manner to mislead others
• individual: Single person, looked at separately from others
• awesome: Great; wonderful; stupendous
• present: Being in attendance; being there; having turned up
• trait: A particular characteristic that can produce a particular type of behavior
• expression: Act of making your thoughts and feelings known
• realize: To become aware of or understand mentally
• tricky: Difficult, so needing skill to do or deal with
• random: Chosen, done without a particular plan or pattern
• express: To send something by fast mail
• represent: To depict art objects, figures, scenes; to portray
• track: To use marks to follow a wild animal
• brand: A mark burned on an animal to show who owns it
• mean: Average of a set of numbers
• capital: Writing the first letter of a word in big letters
• ordinary: Normal or usual
• genetic: Of, relating to, or controlled by genes
• dominant: The strongest; most powerful
• pause: To stop doing for a while before continuing
• comparison: Act of comparing things
• survey: Broad view or general description of something
• option: A choice
• generation: Act or process of producing or causing something
• shape: The outer form of something, what it looks like
• receive: To get something someone has given or sent to you
• notice: To become aware by sight, touch, or hearing
• square: Shape with 4 equal length sides and 4 equal angles
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• important: Having power or authority
• fact: Something that is known or proved to be true
• alphabet: Letters, symbols, characters of a written language
• simple: Not hard to understand or do; not complex
• information: Collection of facts and details about something
• point: An item to be discussed
• reunion: Act of people meeting after being apart
• pick: Sharp tool used for breaking the ground
• remember: To give someone a gift, e.g. birthday, wedding
• inherit: To have a quality or feature passed down at birth
• chromosome: Cell structures that carry the genetic material
• gene: Part of cell controlling development of a thing
• inheritance: Past ideals, styles still important in the present
• recessive: (Of genes) not appearing but remaining hidden
• handout: A piece of paper with information given in class
• arbitrarily: Without using reason, often unfairly; on a whim
• pedigree: History of a particular family or animal
• alphabetically: In the order of the letters of an alphabet
• grandfather: Your mother's or father's father
• genotype: Group of organisms sharing a specific genes