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What does the suffix -ase mean?
What does the suffix -ase mean?
- A tumor
- A process
- A type of cell
- An enzyme (correct)
What does the suffix -blast mean?
What does the suffix -blast mean?
A rapidly dividing cell
What does the suffix -cyte mean?
What does the suffix -cyte mean?
Cell
What do these suffixes -elle, -icle, -iculum, -ion, -ole, -ule, -ula, -ular, -ulum mean?
What do these suffixes -elle, -icle, -iculum, -ion, -ole, -ule, -ula, -ular, -ulum mean?
What does the suffix -gen mean?
What does the suffix -gen mean?
What does the suffix -ic mean?
What does the suffix -ic mean?
What are the suffixes that indicate many chemicals?
What are the suffixes that indicate many chemicals?
What do the suffixes -in, -ein, and -globulin indicate?
What do the suffixes -in, -ein, and -globulin indicate?
What does the suffix -ine indicate?
What does the suffix -ine indicate?
What does the suffix -oma mean?
What does the suffix -oma mean?
What does -lysis stand for?
What does -lysis stand for?
What does the suffix -oid mean?
What does the suffix -oid mean?
What is the common word ending used to indicate alcohol?
What is the common word ending used to indicate alcohol?
What does the suffix -olus mean?
What does the suffix -olus mean?
What is the word ending commonly used to indicate a sugar?
What is the word ending commonly used to indicate a sugar?
What does -osis refer to?
What does -osis refer to?
What does the suffix -ote mean?
What does the suffix -ote mean?
What does -penia mean?
What does -penia mean?
What does the term -poiesis indicate?
What does the term -poiesis indicate?
What does the suffix -some mean?
What does the suffix -some mean?
What does the root word acid describe?
What does the root word acid describe?
What does the root word active describe?
What does the root word active describe?
What does the root word agonist mean?
What does the root word agonist mean?
What is the root word for the chemical group containing nitrogen?
What is the root word for the chemical group containing nitrogen?
What does the root word archaea describe?
What does the root word archaea describe?
What is the root word for life?
What is the root word for life?
What does the root word cancer refer to?
What does the root word cancer refer to?
What does the root word capsid mean?
What does the root word capsid mean?
What does the root word chondro mean?
What does the root word chondro mean?
What is a unit of living things enclosed by a cellular membrane?
What is a unit of living things enclosed by a cellular membrane?
What do the root words chrom/at and chrom/o refer to?
What do the root words chrom/at and chrom/o refer to?
What does clone mean in medical terms?
What does clone mean in medical terms?
What does dox mean?
What does dox mean?
What is deoxyrib/o the root word for?
What is deoxyrib/o the root word for?
What does the word electron refer to?
What does the word electron refer to?
Are the golgi apparatus, golgi bodies, and golgi complex all different?
Are the golgi apparatus, golgi bodies, and golgi complex all different?
What does karyon mean?
What does karyon mean?
What do lys/o and lytic refer to?
What do lys/o and lytic refer to?
What does malignant mean?
What does malignant mean?
What does meion refer to?
What does meion refer to?
What does the root word mito mean?
What does the root word mito mean?
What does myel/o refer to?
What does myel/o refer to?
What does necr/o refer to?
What does necr/o refer to?
What is the center of a cell often bound by another membrane?
What is the center of a cell often bound by another membrane?
What does onc/o refer to?
What does onc/o refer to?
What does the root word organ refer to?
What does the root word organ refer to?
What does paradox mean?
What does paradox mean?
What does the root word for something that does not require energy?
What does the root word for something that does not require energy?
What do phag/o and phage mean?
What do phag/o and phage mean?
What does pin/o mean?
What does pin/o mean?
What does plasm mean?
What does plasm mean?
What does the root word ptosis mean?
What does the root word ptosis mean?
What does respiration refer to?
What does respiration refer to?
What does ret/e mean?
What does ret/e mean?
What does rib/o refer to?
What does rib/o refer to?
What does soma mean as a root word?
What does soma mean as a root word?
What does stasis refer to?
What does stasis refer to?
What does transcript mean?
What does transcript mean?
What does it mean to translate something?
What does it mean to translate something?
What does transmissibility describe?
What does transmissibility describe?
What is the root word for the bladder?
What is the root word for the bladder?
What does virulence mean?
What does virulence mean?
What does virus mean in Latin?
What does virus mean in Latin?
What does zym/o refer to?
What does zym/o refer to?
What do the prefixes ant- and anti- mean?
What do the prefixes ant- and anti- mean?
What does apo- mean?
What does apo- mean?
What does endo- mean?
What does endo- mean?
What prefix means perfect or true?
What prefix means perfect or true?
What does the prefix leuko- mean?
What does the prefix leuko- mean?
What does homeo- mean?
What does homeo- mean?
What does the prefix pro- mean?
What does the prefix pro- mean?
What does sym- mean?
What does sym- mean?
What does ATP stand for?
What does ATP stand for?
What is deoxyribonucleic acid abbreviated as?
What is deoxyribonucleic acid abbreviated as?
How are hydrogen and hydrogen ions abbreviated?
How are hydrogen and hydrogen ions abbreviated?
How are potassium and potassium ions abbreviated?
How are potassium and potassium ions abbreviated?
What does messenger RNA stand for?
What does messenger RNA stand for?
How are sodium and sodium ions abbreviated?
How are sodium and sodium ions abbreviated?
What is the abbreviation for rough endoplasmic reticulum?
What is the abbreviation for rough endoplasmic reticulum?
What does RNA stand for?
What does RNA stand for?
What does rRNA stand for?
What does rRNA stand for?
What are alpha, beta, gamma, delta, and epsilon?
What are alpha, beta, gamma, delta, and epsilon?
What is the first Greek letter?
What is the first Greek letter?
What is the second Greek letter?
What is the second Greek letter?
What is gamma in terms of Greek letters?
What is gamma in terms of Greek letters?
Is delta the fourth or fifth Greek letter?
Is delta the fourth or fifth Greek letter?
What is the fifth Greek letter?
What is the fifth Greek letter?
What does apoptosis mean?
What does apoptosis mean?
What is necrosis?
What is necrosis?
What is homeostasis?
What is homeostasis?
What does nucleic mean?
What does nucleic mean?
What does ribonucleic mean?
What does ribonucleic mean?
What is a ribosome?
What is a ribosome?
What does deoxyribonucleic mean?
What does deoxyribonucleic mean?
What is a nucleolus?
What is a nucleolus?
What is a vesicle?
What is a vesicle?
What is a lysosome?
What is a lysosome?
What is the definition of an enzyme?
What is the definition of an enzyme?
What is an organelle?
What is an organelle?
What is a mitochondrion?
What is a mitochondrion?
What does symbiosis mean?
What does symbiosis mean?
What do centrioles and centrosomes involve?
What do centrioles and centrosomes involve?
What does microtubules refer to?
What does microtubules refer to?
What type of cell division preserves genetic information?
What type of cell division preserves genetic information?
Study Notes
Suffixes and Their Meanings
- -ase: Denotes enzymes, which are proteins that speed up chemical reactions.
- -blast: Refers to rapidly dividing cells.
- -cyte: Indicates a cell.
- Diminutive Suffixes: Includes -elle, -icle, -iculum, -ion, -ole, -ule, -ula, -ular, -ulum, meaning smaller versions of something (e.g., icicle).
- Creation Suffixes: Includes -gen, -genic, -genesis, -genous, indicating creation or giving rise to something.
- -ic: Means referring to something.
- Chemical Suffixes: -id, -ide, -tide are used when referring to multiple chemicals.
- Proteins Indicators: Suffixes -in, -ein, and -globulin denote proteins; -ine indicates amino acids.
Other Important Suffixes
- -oma: Refers to tumors or swellings.
- -lysis: Indicates breakdown or destruction of cells.
- -oid: Means resembling.
- -ol: Common indicator for alcohol.
- -olus: Means smaller.
- -ose: Commonly indicates sugars.
- -osis: Describes a process (e.g., meiosis, mitosis).
- -ote: Derived from zygote, refers to a type of cell.
- -penia: Describes a deficiency in something.
- -poiesis: Refers to the process of creation (e.g., hematopoiesis).
Root Words and Their Significance
- acid: Describes a substance that gives off hydrogen ions.
- active: Indicates something that requires energy.
- agonist: Refers to a fighter or champion.
- aminoo: Indicates a chemical group containing nitrogen.
- archaea: Means ancient, referring to primitive life forms.
- bio: Root word for life.
- cancer: Describes diseases characterized by uncontrolled cell division.
- chondro: Means granule.
- cell: Defines a unit of living things, bound by a membrane.
- color roots: Chrom/at and chrom/o refer to color.
Cellular Components and Function
- electron: A subatomic particle used in microscopy.
- golgi apparatus/bodies/complex: Different terms for the same organelle responsible for processing and packaging proteins.
- karyon: Refers to the nucleus.
- lys/o and lytic: Associated with breakdown or destruction.
- malignant: Describes something invasive or destructive.
- mito: Means thread.
- myel/o: Refers specifically to bone marrow.
- necr/o: Indicates death.
- nucleus: The cell's central part, bound by another membrane.
- onc/o: Relates to cancer (e.g., oncology).
Biological Processes and Concepts
- paradox: Refers to unexpected or contrary to popular opinion.
- passive: Describes processes that do not require energy.
- phag/o: Root for eating, while pin/o refers to drinking.
- plasm: Indicates jelly-like substance; -ptosis refers to drooping.
- respiration: Breathing process turning oxygen into energy.
- rib/o: Refers to sugars in cellular molecules.
- soma: Means body, similar to -some.
- stasis: Refers to stopping or holding (e.g., hemostasis).
Cellular Communication and Genetics
- transcript: Changing form without changing language (e.g., DNA to RNA).
- translation: Changing language (e.g., RNA to protein).
- transmissibility: Pertains to a disease's ability to spread.
- ves: Refers to the bladder.
- virulence: Indicates the severity of a disease.
- virus: Latin term for poison or slimy liquid.
Prefixes and Their Meanings
- anti-/ant-: Mean against.
- apo-: Means off.
- endo-: Means inside.
- eu-: Means perfect or true.
- leuko-: Refers to white (e.g., leukocytes).
- homeo-: Means same.
- pro-: Means before or early.
- sym-: Means together.
Abbreviations and Scientific Notations
- ATP: Stands for Adenosine triphosphate (energy currency of the cell).
- DNA: Deoxyribonucleic acid, used for information storage.
- mRNA: Messenger RNA, crucial for protein synthesis.
- RER: Rough endoplasmic reticulum.
- RNA: Ribonucleic acid, involved in protein construction.
- rRNA: Ribosomal RNA, part of ribosomes involved in protein synthesis.
Cellular Structures and Functions
- nucleolus: Smaller region within the nucleus for RNA production.
- -endoplasmic reticulum: Indicates inside jelly referring to a net structure.
- vesicle: Membrane-bound organelle for material export.
- lysosome: Organelle that breaks down substances.
- organelle: Membrane-bound unit performing specific functions in cells.
- mitochondrion: Energy-producing organelle.
- symbiosis: Describes cells living together.
- centrioles/centrosomes: Organelles involved in cell division.
- microtubules: Structural components of the cell skeleton.
- mitosis: A type of cell division that preserves genetic information.
Biological Death Processes
- apoptosis: Programmed cell death.
- necrosis: Unintentional or pathological cell death.
- homeostasis: State of equilibrium or balance in the body.
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