3- Suffixes and Prefixes

Question 1

-ase

Answer 1

word ending for enzymes, a type of protein that speeds up chemical reactions

Question 2

-blast

Answer 2

rapidly dividing cell

Question 3

-cyte

Answer 3

cell

Question 4

-elle
-icle
-iculum
-ion
-ole
-ule
-ula
-ular
-ulum

Answer 4

diminutive suffix; it makes whatever is in front of it smaller (icicle)

Question 5

-gen
-genic
-genesis
-genous

Answer 5

creation or creating; giving rise to

Question 6

-ic

Answer 6

referring to

Question 7

-id
-ide
-tide

Answer 7

word ending for many chemicals

Question 8

-in
-ein
-globulin

Answer 8

word endings commonly used to indicate a protein (-in is sometimes used for general non-protein chemicals)

Question 9

-ine

Answer 9

word ending commonly used to indicate an amino acid, one of the building blocks of ptroteins

Question 10

-ium

Answer 10

tissue or structure

Question 11

-lysis

Answer 11

breakdown; destruction

Question 12

-oid

Answer 12

resembling

Question 13

-ol

Answer 13

word ending commonly used to indicate an alcohol

Question 14

-olus

Answer 14

smaller

Question 15

-oma

Answer 15

tumor or swelling

Question 16

-ose

Answer 16

word ending commonly used to indicate a sugar

Question 17

-osis

Answer 17

process

Question 18

-ote

Answer 18

type of cell; word ending borrowed from zygote

Question 19

-penia

Answer 19

deficiency; lack of

Question 20

-poiesis

Answer 20

process of creationg

Question 21

-some

Answer 21

body

Question 22

ant-
anti-

Answer 22

against (action)

Question 23

apo-

Answer 23

off

Question 24

endo-

Answer 24

inside

Question 25

eu-

Answer 25

perfect, true

Question 26

homeo-

Answer 26

same

Question 27

leuko

Answer 27

white

Question 28

micro-

Answer 28

small

Question 29

para-

Answer 29

against; contrary

Question 30

pro-

Answer 30

before; early

Question 31

sym-

Answer 31

together (symphony, musicians playing together)