Vocabulary

• thanks to: Because of; as a result of.
• breaks down: To forcibly break, destroy or make collapse
• on to: Toward something; forward
• ultimately: Done or considered as the final and most important
• equivalent: Equal to something in value, use or meaning
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• average: Total of numbers divided by the number of items
• fascinating: To attract or interest greatly
• evolve: To develop certain features
• develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
• disease: Illness that affects a person, animal, or plant
• roughly: Approximately; (of numbers) about; around
• mutation: Change that changes genetic structure
• ability: The power, resources or skill to do something
• estimate: Guess or calculation of cost, size or value
• lack: To not have, or not have enough, of something
• contract: To become ill as a result of getting a disease
• filter: Device to remove certain types of light, sound
• mean: Average of a set of numbers
• genetic: Of, relating to, or controlled by genes
• simply: In an easy or clear manner
• population: Number of people who live in a country, area etc.
• digestion: Process of changing eaten food for use in the body
• digest: To convert food into energy in your stomach
• evolution: Theory that living things change over time
• extra: More than necessary; additional
• planet: One of the bodies that orbit the sun
• suddenly: In an unexpected or very quick manner
• reason: To think and make conclusions in a logical manner
• resistance: Force that stops or slows movement of something
• nutrition: Scientific study of the effects of foods on health
• diet: To eat special or less food, as to lose weight
• oxygen: A gas in the air that we need to breathe
• handy: Convenient, easy to use, easy to reach
• produce: Fresh foods such as fruits and vegetables
• dive: Restaurant, bar or club with a bad reputation
• adaptation: Music, movie or play, changed to a new form
• enzyme: A protein made by cells
• haven: Place where people can feel safe and happy
• allow: To admit the validity or truth of something
• spend: To use money to pay for something
• virus: File secretly put on computers to cause harm
• protect: To defend someone or something from harm or danger
• breath: Air you take in and out of your body
• impressed: To make an emotional or cognitive impact upon
• person: Man, woman or child
• discover: To find something new that was not known before
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• immunity: State of not being able to catch a disease
• future: Time that is to come after the present
• collect: By asking the receiver of a call to pay for it
• part: Division of a book
• popped: To cause something to open or burst suddenly
• underwater: (Moving or existing) beneath the surface of water
• southeast: Location in the southeastern part of an area
• superpower: State powerful enough to influence world events