Unit 3: Cells, Tissues, & Physiology- Roots Flashcards
Acid
A substance which gives off hydrogen ions
Active
Requires energy
Agonist
Fighter, champion
(Greek agonistes)
Amino
Chemical group containing the element nitrogen
Archaea
The oldest and most primitive form of living beings
(Greek arkhaîos)
Bio
Life
Cancer
A disease characterized by uncontrolled cell division and / or the unusual appearance of cells
(Greek crab)
Capsid
Box
(Latin capsa)
Cell
Unit of living things, bounded by a cellular membrane
Centr/i
Center
Centr/o
Center
Chondr
Grandule
Chrom/at
color
Chrom/o
color
Clone
A cell which is an exact genetic copy of its parent cell
Deoxyrib/o
A sugar which is smaller to ribbose but is missing oxygen
Dox
Opinion; beleif
Feedback
Information in the body used to monitor a state or condition
Golgi apparatus
Golgi bodies
Golgi complex
Three names for the same organelles, discovered by Camillo Golgi, a 19th-century Italian anatomist
Karyon
Nucleus
(From Greek “nut”)
Lys/o
Breakdown; destruction
Lytic
Breakdown; destruction
Malignant
Invasive or destructive; literally, “followers of the antichrist”
meion
Lesoon; reduce
mito
thread
myel/o
Marrow, especially bone marrow, which makes the body’s defensive cells
Necr/o
death
Nucleus
The center of a cell, often bound by another membrane
onc/o
cancer
organ
tool; intrument
paradox
Against prevailing opinion; unexpected
Passive
Does not require energy
Phag/o
Eating
Phage
Eating
Pin/o
Drinking
Plasm
Jelly
Ptosis
Drooping
Respiration
Literally “breathing”, but used to describe the process of turning oxygen into energy
Ret/e
Net
Rib/o
A sugar which is the basis for many molecules
Soma
Body
stasis
stopping; holding
transcript
Changing the form without changing the language
(Oral to written, or DNA to RNA)
Transmissibility
The ability of a disease to move from one person to another
Ves
Bladder
Virulence
The severity of a disease
Virus
Latin “Slimy liquid”, “poison”
Zym/o
Leavening (the chemical process that makes bubbles in bread and beer)
