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- bio
- life
- -ology
- study of
- genesis
- to be born; beginning
- micro
- small
- -scope
- to observe
- meter
- measure
- centi
- hundred
- milli
- thousand
- homo
- same
- endo
- inside
- exo
- outside
- therm
- heat
- synthesis
- to put together
- mono-
- one
- di-
- two
- poly
- many
- phago
- to eat
- pino
- to drink
- saccharide
- sugar
- cyt
- cell
- uni
- one
- multi
- many
- chromo
- color
- iso
- same
- hypo
- less than
- hyper
- more than
- lysis
- breaking down; destruction
- tri
- three
- photo
- light
- aeros
- air
- a;an
- without
- hetero
- other; different
- auto
- self
- chemo
- chemical
- intra
- inside
- extra
- outside
- genetics
- study of heredity
- heredity
- thransmission of traits f rom parent to offspring
- fission
- splitting or breaking apart
- fusion
- blending together
- mutation
- to change
- lethal
- causing death
- somatic
- body; non-reproductive
- evolve
- to change; to become more complex
- anthro
- man
- binomial
- two names
- nomenclature
- naming
- equus
- horse
- canis
- dog
- felis
- cat
- obligate
- to require
- toxin
- poison
- pathogen
- capable of causing disease
- gero
- old age or the aged
- proto
- first; original
- zoo
- animal; animal-like
- phyto
- plant; plant-like
- macro
- large
- -cide
- killer or destroyer of
- hallucinate
- false perception with no relation to reality
- myco
- fungus
- botany
- study of plants
- ovum
- egg
- anatomy
- study of structure
- physiology
- study of function
- apex
- highest point; tip
- lateral
- side
- viable
- capable of living
- zoology
- study of animals
- sessile
- attached at its base
- motile
- to move
- symmetrical
- can be cut into equal halves
- ventral
- toward abdomen
- dorsal
- toward back
- os
- mouth; opening
- derm
- skin; covering
- larva
- immature form unlike adult
- gastro
- stomach
- pod
- foot
- cephalo
- head
- arthro
- joint
- thorax
- part of a body between neck and abdomen
- neuro
- nerve
- entomology
- study of insects
- metamorphosis
- change of shape or structure
- hemo
- blood
- -parous
- to give birth to
- olfactory
- to smell
- optic
- to see
- osteo
- bone
- ichthyology
- study of fish
- bladder
- sac
- herpetology
- study of reptiles
- ornithology
- study of birds
- histology
- study of tissues
- cardiac
- heart
- -itis
- inflammation
- erythro
- red
- levico
- white
- thrombo
- clot
- edema
- excessive fluid in tissue
- embryology
- study of the development of the organism before birth