GENETICS CUMULATIVE WORDSTEM LIST WITH MEANINGS
David B. Fankhauser, Professor of Biology and Chemistry, UC Clermont College This page has been accessed  times since 29 December 2004.  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 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.
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