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jeanlouis Sam 6 Sep - 20:07Unit 3 Welcome to the real natural history museum
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You say that someone __________s people when they give an impressive performance and fill people with enthusiasm and admiration. Example: Ben Tankard ________ed the crowd with his jazz.
______________ animals are kept in museums so that scientists can study them.
The Natural History Museum in London recently opened a huge new exhibition centre full to the brim with jars of ___________animals. There are 450,000 jars of specimens in the Darwin Centre in London.
The earth is covered by a fragile layer: a thin crust made up of mosses, lichens, algae, and bacteria. This layer is called a ______________ crust. And the species of lichens, algae, fungi, mosses, and cyanobacteria that share similar habitats are collectively referred to as __________gams. These organisms form a biotic layer, or __________ crust, over unvegetated areas between shrubs, grasses, and flowering plants in undisturbed arid and semi-arid lands of the world, When large areas of the ____________ crust are disturbed, water and wind erode the soil.
When animals or plants ___________, they gradually change and develop into different forms. Example:The bright plumage of many male birds was thought to have _________ed to attract females. If something __________s or you __________ it, it gradually develops over a period of time into something different and usually more advanced. Example: As medical knowledge ___________s, beliefs change.
A _________is the part of a cell in a living thing which controls its physical characteristics, growth, and development.
In biology ___________ is the study of the diversity of organism characteristics, and especially how they relate evolutionarily, that is establishing their phylogeny.The term _________________ may or may not overlap with taxonomy which concerns itself with scientific classification of species and other taxa. Recent developments are cladistics and molecular systematics.
If you _________ ________ something, you look at it very hard, usually because it is difficult to see clearly. Examples: He watched the Customs official _________ ______ the driver's window. I had been _________ing at a computer print-out that made no sense at all.
A _________________ is any organism which can cause disease in a person, animal, or plant.
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A _________is an insect or similar small creature. Example: We noticed tiny________s that were all over the walls. If there is a __________ in a computer programme, there is a mistake in it. Example:There is a__________ in the software.
If someone _________s a place, they hide tiny microphones in it which transmit what people are saying. Example: He heard that they were planning to bug his office. I found out my phone was bugged. ...an electronic __________ng device.
______________ is an acid in the chromosomes in the centre of the cells of living things. ___________ determines the particular structure and functions of every cell and is responsible for characteristics being passed on from parents to their children. ___________ is an abbreviation for `deoxyribonucleic acid'.
If you _____________something or if it ___________s, it breaks into many pieces, for example when it is hit or dropped. Example: A crowd of youths started ___________ing windows.
A _____________search, examination, or investigation is done extremely carefully and thoroughly. Examples: Forensic experts carried out a_____________ search of the debris.
= careful, thorough .Broken bones were ____________ly pieced together and reshaped.
Something that is ___________ has one or more sharp points. Examples: Her short _________ hair is damp with sweat. ...tall, _________ evergreen trees.
If you ___________ ____ with someone, you join them for a particular purpose.Examples:
They _______ed ______with a series of local anti-nuclear and anti-apartheid groups.
The Russian and American armies _______ed _____ for the first time on the banks of the river Elbe. = join If one thing is ______ed ____ to another, the two things are connected to each other. Examples: The television screens of the next century will be _______ed______ to an emerging world telecommunications grid. = connect
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A Pathogen Bug DNA To Smash Painstaking Spiky Link-up
You say that someone __________s people when they give an impressive performance and fill people with enthusiasm and admiration. Example: Ben Tankard ________ed the crowd with his jazz.
______________ animals are kept in museums so that scientists can study them.
The Natural History Museum in London recently opened a huge new exhibition centre full to the brim with jars of ___________animals. There are 450,000 jars of specimens in the Darwin Centre in London.
The earth is covered by a fragile layer: a thin crust made up of mosses, lichens, algae, and bacteria. This layer is called a ______________ crust. And the species of lichens, algae, fungi, mosses, and cyanobacteria that share similar habitats are collectively referred to as __________gams. These organisms form a biotic layer, or __________ crust, over unvegetated areas between shrubs, grasses, and flowering plants in undisturbed arid and semi-arid lands of the world, When large areas of the ____________ crust are disturbed, water and wind erode the soil.
When animals or plants ___________, they gradually change and develop into different forms. Example:The bright plumage of many male birds was thought to have _________ed to attract females. If something __________s or you __________ it, it gradually develops over a period of time into something different and usually more advanced. Example: As medical knowledge ___________s, beliefs change.
A _________is the part of a cell in a living thing which controls its physical characteristics, growth, and development.
In biology ___________ is the study of the diversity of organism characteristics, and especially how they relate evolutionarily, that is establishing their phylogeny.The term _________________ may or may not overlap with taxonomy which concerns itself with scientific classification of species and other taxa. Recent developments are cladistics and molecular systematics.
If you _________ ________ something, you look at it very hard, usually because it is difficult to see clearly. Examples: He watched the Customs official _________ ______ the driver's window. I had been _________ing at a computer print-out that made no sense at all.
A _________________ is any organism which can cause disease in a person, animal, or plant.
CHOOSE THE BEST WORD OR EXPRESSION TO MATCH THE DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS GIVEN BELOW
To Wow Pickled Cryptogamic To Evolve A Gene Systematics To Peer Into
A Pathogen Bug DNA To Smash Painstaking Spiky Link-up
A _________is an insect or similar small creature. Example: We noticed tiny________s that were all over the walls. If there is a __________ in a computer programme, there is a mistake in it. Example:There is a__________ in the software.
If someone _________s a place, they hide tiny microphones in it which transmit what people are saying. Example: He heard that they were planning to bug his office. I found out my phone was bugged. ...an electronic __________ng device.
______________ is an acid in the chromosomes in the centre of the cells of living things. ___________ determines the particular structure and functions of every cell and is responsible for characteristics being passed on from parents to their children. ___________ is an abbreviation for `deoxyribonucleic acid'.
If you _____________something or if it ___________s, it breaks into many pieces, for example when it is hit or dropped. Example: A crowd of youths started ___________ing windows.
A _____________search, examination, or investigation is done extremely carefully and thoroughly. Examples: Forensic experts carried out a_____________ search of the debris.
= careful, thorough .Broken bones were ____________ly pieced together and reshaped.
Something that is ___________ has one or more sharp points. Examples: Her short _________ hair is damp with sweat. ...tall, _________ evergreen trees.
If you ___________ ____ with someone, you join them for a particular purpose.Examples:
They _______ed ______with a series of local anti-nuclear and anti-apartheid groups.
The Russian and American armies _______ed _____ for the first time on the banks of the river Elbe. = join If one thing is ______ed ____ to another, the two things are connected to each other. Examples: The television screens of the next century will be _______ed______ to an emerging world telecommunications grid. = connect