| A | B |
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| inheritance | something (often money or land) passed down to someone by a relative |
| environment | the air, land, and water that people, plants, and animals live in; surroundings |
| ancestors | family members from long ago (older than a person's grandparents) |
| personality | the way a person thinks, feels, and acts |
| lifestyle | the way in which a person lives |
| generation | group of people born during the same time period |
| complex | having many parts or details that make something hard to understand or work with |
| simplify | to make something less complex or diffficult to understand |
| paraphrase | to put part of a reading in your own words |
| tend to | are likely to |
| proteins | molecules in cells that make living things work correctly |
| rare | not common |
| outgoing | friendly; active in seeking the company of others |
| influence | change or affect |
| anxious | worried; nervously fearful |
| upbringing | the way that a young person is raised and educated |
| circumstances | conditions that affect someone or something |
| purpose | a goal; a reason for doing something |
| inform | to give information about something |
| entertain | to amuse; to give enjoyment |
| visuals | photographs, illustrations, and charts that give readers more information about text |
| captions | words that explain the information in the visuals |
| traits | special qualities or characteristics such as eye color, hair texture, and height that parents pass on to their children through genes |
| genes | parts of a cell that determine traits |
| dominant | something that is stronger than something else; in genetics -- an allele that hides another allele |
| recessive | something that is suppressed; hidden; dormant; in genetics -- an allele that is hidden |
| making inferences | finding meaning that isn't stated in the text; connecting what you know to what you read |
| determine | decide; resolve; finalize |
