Latin Vocabulary 4

Question 1

-oid

Answer 1

like, resembling.

Example: coccoid, resembling a coccus.

Question 2

-oma

Answer 2

tumor.

Example: lymphoma, a tumor of the lymphatic tissues.

Question 3

ortho-

Answer 3

straight, direct.

Example: orthomyxovirus, a virus with a straight, tubular capsid.

Question 4

pan-

Answer 4

all, universal.

Example: pandemic, an epidemic affecting a large region.

Question 5

para-

Answer 5

beside, near.

Example: parasite, an organism that “feeds beside” another.

Question 6

peri-

Answer 6

around.

peritrichous, projections from all sides.

Question 7

phaeo-

Answer 7

brown.

Example: Phaeophyta, brown algae.

Question 8

phago-

Answer 8

eat.

Example: phagocyte, a cell that engulfs and digests particles or cells.

Question 9

philo-, -phil

Answer 9

liking, preferring.

Example: thermophile, an organism that prefers high temperatures.

Question 10

-phyll

Answer 10

leaf.

Example: chlorophyll, the green pigment in leaves.

Question 11

-phyte

Answer 11

plant.

Example: saprophyte, a plant that obtains nutrients from decomposing organic matter.

Question 12

pil-

Answer 12

a hair.

Example: pilus, a hairlike projection from a cell.

Question 13

plankto-

Answer 13

wandering, roaming.

Example: plankton, organisms drifting or wandering in water.

Question 14

plast-

Answer 14

formed.

Example: plastid, a formed body within a cell.

Question 15

pod-

Answer 15

foot.

Example: pseudopod, a footlike structure.

Question 16

poly-

Answer 16

many.

Example: polymorphism, many forms.

Question 17

pseudo-

Answer 17

false.

Example: pseudopod, false foot.

Question 18

psychro-

Answer 18

cold.

Example: psychrophile, an organism that grows best a low temperatures.

Question 19

-ptera

Answer 19

wing.

Example: Diptera, the order of true flies, insects with two wings.

Question 20

pyo-

Answer 20

pus.

Example: pyogenic, pus-forming.

Question 21

rhizo-

Answer 21

root.

Examples: Rhizobium, a bacterium that grows in plant roots; mycorrhiza, a fungus in or on plant roots.

Question 22

rhodo-

Answer 22

red.

Example: Rhodospirillum, a red-pigmented, spiral-shaped bacterium.

Question 23

rubri-

Answer 23

red.

Example: Clostridiium rudrum, red-pigmented colonies.

Question 24

sapr-

Answer 24

rotten.

Example: Saprolegnia, a fungus that lives on dead animals.

Question 25

sarco-

Answer 25

flesh.

Example: sarcoma, a tumor of muscle or connective tissues.

Question 26

schizo-

Answer 26

split.

Example: schizomyctes, organisms that reproduce by splitting an early name for bacteria.

Question 27

scolec-

Answer 27

worm.

Example: scolex, the head of a tapeworm.

Question 28

sept-

Answer 28

rotting.

Example: septic, presence of bacteria that could cause decomposition.