Page 16 - St. Joseph Messenger November 2020

botanist: a specialist in the science of plants VIDEO OF THE MONTH

dominant: relating to a variant that masks
the effect of another variant

embarked: started an enterprise or project
G
genetics: the science of heredity, dealing
L with resemblances and differences of related
organisms

O howitzer: a cannon having a very short
barrel
S hybridization: the process of producing the

offspring of two different varieties of plants Just how did J.R.R. Tolkien come up
S or animals with the language used in The Lord of
the Rings? You have to admit, the
A impetus: a moving force, impulse, or names of the characters and the lan-
guage itself are “unusual” to say the
stimulus
least. This video will give you an idea
R insulin: a commercial preparation which is of what the names mean and where
used in the treatment of diabetes to restore they came from.
Y the ability of a body to utilize sugars
Middle Earth and the Lord of the
pasteurization: the process of destroying Rings epics were created around his
microorganisms that produce disease constructed languages. Some say that
he would have preferred to write the
pioneering: being the first or earliest in any books totally in Elvish.
field of inquiry

recessive: relating to a variant that is masked
by the effect of another variant Virgin Most Merciful,
pray for us.

Answers to activities on page 13:

Who’s Who This Month?
1. B; 2. C; 3. E; 4. H; 5. J; 6. G; 7. A; 8. F; 9. I; 10. D

Short Answers
1. cross fertilization of plants of opposite characteristics; Law of Segregation, Law of Independent Assort-
ment; 2. C.S. Lewis; no proof that Christianity was better than paganism; 3. a myth disguised as a thriller;
4. liturgical period which takes us through the life of Christ; Ordinary Time has two parts - the first part
begins right after the feast of the Epiphany and runs until Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday
(when Lent begins) and the second part begins the Monday after Pentecost and runs until the First Sunday
of Advent; 5. United States Conference of Catholic Bishops; 6. prayer texts for use in the Mass; 7. censer;
boat; 8. long-distance radio transmission