Word Roots and Stems BIO U1

Match the following word roots/stems with the correct meaning.

• a-

• fear/hate

• bio-

• without

• -philic

• part (that can merge)

• -mer

• life

• -phobic

• love

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• -troph

• self

• hetero-

• cell

• auto-

• to nourish

• cyto-/-cyte

• different

• uni-

• one

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• -ase

• water/hydrogen

• hydro-

• more than one

• multi-

• enzyme

• homo-/homeo-

• same/stable

• -ose

• carbohydrate

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• -sacchar

• many

• mono-

• sugar

• poly-

• one

• sym-

• together

• -phage/phago-

• to eat

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• lip-

• sweet

• glyc-

• to produce

• amino-

• to split

• -gen

• fat

• -lyse

• nitrogen

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• -osis

• light

• endo-

• inside/enter

• chloro-

• the process of

• exo-

• outside/exit

• photo-

• green

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• -osis

• nucleus

• eu-

• the process of

• anti-

• against

• pro-

• true

• kary-

• before