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Jonisett
Bio Root Words - 7th
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| BIO | Life |
| -OLOGY | The study of |
| MICRO | Tiny (10 to the -6); millionth |
| -IC | Pertaining to |
| KILO | 1000 (10 to the 3rd) |
| NANO | Billionth (10 to the -9) |
| METER | To measure |
| DIPLO | Two-fold (double) |
| QUANT | How much |
| QUALI | What kind, sort |
| MEGA | Large, million,( ten to the 6th) |
| PHYLL | Leaf (leaves) |
| LYS | to dissolve (loosen) |
| MITO | Thread |
| ENDO | Inside (internal) |
| EXO | Outside (external) |
| -OSIS | Process (condition) |
| TEL(E) | Far away; end (last) |
| DIA(DI) | Through (across) |
| DENS | Thick, crowded, compact |
| PHOT | Light |
| HETERO | Other (different) |
| AUTO | Self |
| GLUC | Sweet |
| AMEOB | Change |
| PSEUDO | Fake |
| ECO | Habitat, environment |
| FLOR(A) | Plant (plant life) |
| FAUNA | Animal (animal-life) |
| TECH(NO) | Art, skill, craft, "builder" |
| GEN | Forming, origin; kind |
| -TION | An action or process |
| HELI | Spiral, twist or coil |
| ALLEL | The other |
| CHROM | Color |
| CHLOR | Green |
| PICO | Super small, trillionth (ten to the -12) |
| SCOP | To View |
| Milli | Thousandth (ten to the -3) |
| CYT | Cell |
| UNI | One |
| CENT (CENTI) | Hundred(ten to the 2nd) or hundredths (ten to the -2) |
| MULTI | Many |
| FLAGELL | Whip (whip-like) |
| KARY | Nut (kernel) |
| ANTI | Against |
| A(AN) | Not; without |
| STREPTO | Chain, twisted like a chain |
| AQUA | Water |
| PUTRE | Decay/rot |
| EU | True |
| PHENO | To show (display) |
| MONO | One |
| POLY | Many |
| Pneumonoultramicroscopicsiicovolcanoconiosis | Silicosis |
| CO | Together,with |
| ZYGO | Yoke, joined |
| MUT | Change |
| FILI | son/daughter |
| ACID | Sour |
| THERM | Heat |
| EPI | above, over |
| TROPH | food, nourishment |
| SCRIPT | write, record |
| TRANS | across, through |
| SOM | body, mass |
| FOSSIL | dug up |
| HYPER | above, over |
| HYPO | under, below, beneath |
| ISM | belief in, practice, condition or process |
| SYM | with, together |
| ARCHAE | old, ancient |
| VOLU | bend, curve, turn |
| CENO | new, recent |
| CYAN | blue, dark blue |
| HALI | salt |
| PHYLO | tribe, race |
| NOM | name |
| MACRO | large, great |
| ZO | animal |
| TAX- | arrangement, order |
| PALAE | ancient, primitive, old |
| ? kids choice | use wording.info to add a ROOT that we do not have yet |
| AMPH | both |
| CARN | meat |
| BENTH | deep |
| AV (AVI) | bird |
| CEPHALO | head |
| POD (PODA) | foot |
| ECHINO | spiny |
| OMNI | all |
| GEO | earth, land, soil |
| MEDI | heal (middle) |
| DENDR | tree (tree-like) |
| DERM | skin |
| -ITIS | inflammation |
| CARDI | heart |
| OSTE | bone |
| PULMO | lungs |