| GENETICS CUMULATIVE WORDSTEM LIST WITH MEANINGS AND APPROXIMATE QUIZ OR EXAM | page 5 | ||||||||||
| These wordstems have been given over the years 1992-2004. The numbers and letters indicate which quiz or exam | |||||||||||
| on which they may have first appeared. | |||||||||||
| 3 January 1993, latest revision: 2 Jan 96, 2 Jan 97, 10 Mar 97, 2 Jan 98, 30 Dec 99, 27 Dec 00, 8 Mar 02, 29Dec04 | |||||||||||
| aden- | md | gland | guan- | md | dung | pept- | 3Q | stomach | |||
| aesthetic | 1Q | feelings | ha- | 1Q | single | per- | 4Q | thoroughly | |||
| all- | 1Q | other | hemi- | 2Q | half | phag- | md | eat | |||
| an- | 1Q | without | hemo- | md | blood | pheno- | 1Q | appear | |||
| ana- | md | upward | hetero- | 1Q | different | phil- | 3Q | like | |||
| anemia | md | without blood | Hfr | md | high freq recomb | -phila | 1Q | like | |||
| anima | 2Q | soul | homo- | 1Q | same, man | -phor- | 3Q | bear, carry | |||
| anti- | md | against | homunclus | 2Q | man, little | pilus | md | hair | |||
| -apse | 1Q | fasten | hypha | md | thread | Pisum | 1Q | pea | |||
| apterous | md | without wing | hypo- | 2Q | under | pleio- | 2Q | many | |||
| aqua- | 3Q | water | -in | 2Q | agent | -ploid | 1Q | # sets chromosomes | |||
| ascus | md | sack | -ine | 2Q | nitrogen containing | pneum- | 2Q | air | |||
| -ase | md | enzyme | inter- | 2Q | between | poly- | 1Q | many | |||
| auto- | 2Q | self | intra- | md | within | pro- | md | first | |||
| auxo- | 2Q | aid | iso- | md | same | prox- | 4Q | next to | |||
| cata- | 3Q | down | jug- | md | join | pter- | 1Q | wing | |||
| chi | 2Q | X, cross | junc- | 2Q | join | pupa | 1Q | doll | |||
| chromo- | 1Q | color | karyo- | md | nucleus | pyr- | 3Q | fire | |||
| cis | 3Q | on the same side | kin- | md | move | -sanguinous | 1Q | blood | |||
| cis- | 4Q | cut | lepto- | 1Q | weak | sativum | 1Q | common | |||
| con- | 2Q | together | lig- | md | tie | -script | md | write | |||
| conidia | 4Q | dust | locus | 2Q | place | semi- | 2Q | half | |||
| cyto- | md | cell | lympho- | 2Q | water nymph | -sis | 2Q | process, condition | |||
| de- | 1Q | from, remove | lys- | md | break | situ | 4Q | place | |||
| derm- | md | skin | macro- | md | large | -some | 1Q | body | |||
| di- | md | two | meio- | 1Q | reduce | -stasis | 2Q | stand process | |||
| dia- | md | across | melan- | 1Q | black | -steric | 3Q | place | |||
| dide- | 3Q | two remove | -mer | md | unit | syn- | 1Q | together | |||
| diplo- | 2Q | double | meta- | 1Q | middle | tauto- | 4Q | same | |||
| dis- | 2Q | separate | mito- | 1Q | thread | telo- | md | far, last | |||
| -drome | 3Q | run | moeity | md | chem group | -tene | 1Q | ribbon | |||
| droso- | 1Q | dew | mono- | 1Q | single | terato- | 2Q | monster | |||
| -duce | md | carry | morphic | 1Q | shape | tetra | md | four | |||
| dys- | 2Q | faulty | muta- | 1Q | change | thermo- | 3Q | heat | |||
| emasculate | 1Q | from maleness | myc- | md | fungus | -tion | 2Q | process, condition | |||
| endo- | md | within | nascent | 4Q | born, birth | titer | md | rank, count | |||
| epi- | 2Q | upon | nulli- | md | not, none | -tonic | md | strength, stretch | |||
| etymo- | 1Q | true | -on | 3Q | unit | trans- | md | across | |||
| eu- | md | well, true | -ose | md | sugar | -trophy | 2Q | nourish | |||
| filial | 1Q | of the son | oxy- | md | sharp, acid | -tropic | 2Q | turn | |||
| fract- | 2Q | break | pachy- | 1Q | thick | virus | md | poison | |||
| gamos | 1Q | marry | palin- | 3Q | backward | vitro | 4Q | glass | |||
| gaster | 1Q | belly | para- | md | alongside | vivo | 4Q | life | |||
| gen- | 1Q | give rise to | patho- | 2Q | suffer, disease | VNTR | 3Q | variable number | |||
| -gnomic | 2Q | know | PCR | 3Q | polymerase chain rxn | tandem repeats | |||||
| ped- | 1Q | foot | -yl | md | chemical radical | ||||||
| zygo- | 1Q | join | |||||||||