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4. consummation                                           kon′-sƏ-MAY′-shƏn


    5. incorrigibility                                        in-kawr′-Ə-jƏ-BIL′-Ə-tee

    6. inveteracy                                             in-VET′-Ə-rƏ-see

    7. veteran                                                VET′-Ə-rƏn


    8. genetics                                               jƏ-NET′-iks

    9. geneticist                                             jƏ-NET′-Ə-sist

  10. genetic                                                 jƏ-NET′-ik


  11. gene                                                    JEEN

  12. genealogy                                               jee′-nee-AL′-Ə-jee

  13. genealogist                                             jee′-nee-AL′-Ə-jist


  14. genealogical                                            jee′-nee-Ə-LOJ′-Ə-kƏl

  15. genital                                                 JEN′-Ə-tƏl

  16. genesis                                                 JEN′-Ə-sis


  17. hereditary                                              hƏ-RED′-Ə-tair′-ee




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    1. notoriety                                              a. state of artistic height

    2. to consummate (v.)                                     b. state of being long established in a habit

    3. consummacy                                             c. beginning, origin


    4. incorrigibility                                        d. science of heredity

    5. inveteracy                                             e. bring to completion; top off

    6. genetics                                               f. study of ancestry


                                                              g. referring to characteristics passed on to
    7. genealogy
                                                                  offspring by parents

                                                              h. referring to reproduction, or to the
    8. genital
                                                                  reproductive or sexual organs

    9. genesis                                                i. ill fame


                                                              j. particle that transmits hereditary
  10. hereditary
                                                                  characteristics
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