Wonder Vocab Part 2 List #2 (Via)

Question 1

pogroms

Answer 1

an organized massacre, especially of Jews

Question 2

suburb

Answer 2

a district lying immediately outside a city or town

Question 3

sepia

Answer 3

a print or photograph made with brownish colors

Question 4

babushkas

Answer 4

a woman’s scarf used as a hood with two of the ends tied under the chin

Question 5

genetic

Answer 5

relating to genes (directions for making an organism)

Question 6

recessive

Answer 6

the one of a pair of alternative alleles whose effect is masked by the activity of the second when both are present in the same organism

Question 7

mutation

Answer 7

a change or alteration of form

Question 8

gene

Answer 8

the basic physical unit of heredity

Question 9

chromosome

Answer 9

several threadlike bodies that carry the genes in a cell

Question 10

inherited

Answer 10

received by the transmission of hereditary factors

Question 11

dominant

Answer 11

the one of a pair of alternative alleles that masks the effect of the other when both are present in the same organism

Question 12

probability

Answer 12

the relative possibility that an event will occur

Question 13

Punnett square

Answer 13

a square diagram that is used by scientists to predict genotypes of offspring

Question 14

forecast

Answer 14

to predict

Question 15

quips

Answer 15

clever or witty remark or comment

Question 16

diverse

Answer 16

representatives from more than one social, cultural, or economic group

Question 17

immerses

Answer 17

involve deeply

Question 18

bribed

Answer 18

to give or promise something in exchange for doing a favor

Question 19

emphatically

Answer 19

with emphasis or force