The potato provided the _____ - the starter engine - for the industrial revolution there

Landowners could make a much greater _____ from selling wool than from the rents of their tenant farmers.

There had been a tradition of _____ from rural Ireland. In the early 1800’s this had reached figures of up to 130,000 per year.

The wolves that became dogs may have started out as scavengers around human camp sites who became _____ to receiving human handouts.

The foxes were not trained, so the major _____ of their tameness should be genetic.

Today, over forty years after the breeding had begun, these domesticated foxes _____ 70-80% of the test population.

The _____ for tamability were very strict. Only about 5% of the males and 20% of the females were selected to breed.

The original potatoes, corn, wheat and other plants have been changed by mankind over the centuries in a process called ‘_____’.

It was not Fleming’s _____ to discover the antibiotic penicillin: he found it by accident.

Behavioral changes mostly involve _____, a set of characteristics that make the animal docile and obedient to humans.

People are not given any information about the _____ effects, the advantages that bacteria and so on bring to humanity.

These diseases were not dangerous to the Europeans; they had developed _____ to them, and they didn’t cause serious symptoms in Europeans.

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Question	Answer
impetus	The potato provided the _____ - the starter engine - for the industrial revolution there
profit	Landowners could make a much greater _____ from selling wool than from the rents of their tenant farmers.
emigration	There had been a tradition of _____ from rural Ireland. In the early 1800’s this had reached figures of up to 130,000 per year.
accustomed	The wolves that became dogs may have started out as scavengers around human camp sites who became _____ to receiving human handouts.
component	The foxes were not trained, so the major _____ of their tameness should be genetic.
comprise	Today, over forty years after the breeding had begun, these domesticated foxes _____ 70-80% of the test population.
criteria	The _____ for tamability were very strict. Only about 5% of the males and 20% of the females were selected to breed.
domestication	The original potatoes, corn, wheat and other plants have been changed by mankind over the centuries in a process called ‘_____’.
intention	It was not Fleming’s _____ to discover the antibiotic penicillin: he found it by accident.
tameness	Behavioral changes mostly involve _____, a set of characteristics that make the animal docile and obedient to humans.
beneficial	People are not given any information about the _____ effects, the advantages that bacteria and so on bring to humanity.
immunity	These diseases were not dangerous to the Europeans; they had developed _____ to them, and they didn’t cause serious symptoms in Europeans.

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