"What are you doing, Rico?" Jake asked as he sat down next to his friend at the cafeteria table. Rico slammed his book closed an
d shook his head at Jake. "I'm supposed to be reading this book, but it's so boring! Why do I need to know about this stuff anyway?" Rico complained as he opened his can of soda. Jake looked at Rico's book with interest. "What are you reading about?" Jake asked. Rico shoved the book across the table at his friend. "Some person named Mae…Jenkins? Mae…Jennings? I have no idea," Rico replied. He unwrapped his sandwich and took a big bite. "Mae Jemison? She's not boring—she's cool!" Jake exclaimed as he flipped through Rico's book. Rico stared at his friend in disbelief. "It's true, Rico. I did a report on her in science class." "Sure, Jake, if you say so," he groaned. "Now, if only you had to do this paper instead of me…." "Look, Rico," Jake said as he returned Rico's book. "Mae Jemison was an astronaut with NASA, and she was the first African American woman to go into space. She grew up in Chicago, just like you and me. She served in the Peace Corps in Africa. She was even in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation!" Rico's eyes almost bugged out of his head. "Really?" he said as he opened his book and started reading. "Maybe I'll give this book another try after all!" Jake and Rico's relationship in this passage is most similar to the relationship between A:a doctor and a patient. B:a police officer and a suspect. C:a teacher and a student. D:a parent and a child.
A chromosome is a thread-like structure of DNA (nucleic acids and proteins) that carries genes. The "X" or "Y" gene that determines whether you will be a boy or a girl is an example of a chromosome.
Think of the paragraph he vowed in his heart to never be so irresponsible again when looking at the text we can see thay he used vowed in a sentence that ade it seem he was promising to never do it again so if you still have troubble read over the paragraph and try to find the sentence were he is doing the action then pick out or identify the word that would be in the place of the meaning word
