| A | B |
| Disintegrate/disintegration | to fall apart into tiny pieces |
| Rigid | unable to bend or lose its shape; not flexible |
| Deplete | use up the supply of |
| Polyploid | more than two homologous sets of chromosomes |
| Variability | ability to change |
| Reverse | to go in the opposite way |
| Distinguish | to tell apart from something else |
| Mono- | one |