Unit 3: Cells, Tissues, & Physiology- Roots

Question 1

Acid

Answer 1

A substance which gives off hydrogen ions

Question 2

Active

Answer 2

Requires energy

Question 3

Agonist

Answer 3

Fighter, champion
(Greek agonistes)

Question 4

Amino

Answer 4

Chemical group containing the element nitrogen

Question 5

Archaea

Answer 5

The oldest and most primitive form of living beings
(Greek arkhaîos)

Question 6

Bio

Answer 6

Life

Question 7

Cancer

Answer 7

A disease characterized by uncontrolled cell division and / or the unusual appearance of cells
(Greek crab)

Question 8

Capsid

Answer 8

Box
(Latin capsa)

Question 9

Cell

Answer 9

Unit of living things, bounded by a cellular membrane

Question 10

Centr/i

Answer 10

Center

Question 11

Centr/o

Answer 11

Center

Question 12

Chondr

Answer 12

Grandule

Question 13

Chrom/at

Answer 13

color

Question 14

Chrom/o

Answer 14

color

Question 15

Clone

Answer 15

A cell which is an exact genetic copy of its parent cell

Question 16

Deoxyrib/o

Answer 16

A sugar which is smaller to ribbose but is missing oxygen

Question 17

Dox

Answer 17

Opinion; beleif

Question 18

Feedback

Answer 18

Information in the body used to monitor a state or condition

Question 19

Golgi apparatus
Golgi bodies
Golgi complex

Answer 19

Three names for the same organelles, discovered by Camillo Golgi, a 19th-century Italian anatomist

Question 20

Karyon

Answer 20

Nucleus
(From Greek “nut”)

Question 21

Lys/o

Answer 21

Breakdown; destruction

Question 22

Lytic

Answer 22

Breakdown; destruction

Question 23

Malignant

Answer 23

Invasive or destructive; literally, “followers of the antichrist”

Question 24

meion

Answer 24

Lesoon; reduce

Question 25

mito

Answer 25

thread

Question 26

myel/o

Answer 26

Marrow, especially bone marrow, which makes the body’s defensive cells

Question 27

Necr/o

Answer 27

death

Question 28

Nucleus

Answer 28

The center of a cell, often bound by another membrane

Question 29

onc/o

Answer 29

cancer

Question 30

organ

Answer 30

tool; intrument

Question 31

paradox

Answer 31

Against prevailing opinion; unexpected

Question 32

Passive

Answer 32

Does not require energy

Question 33

Phag/o

Answer 33

Eating

Question 34

Phage

Answer 34

Eating

Question 35

Pin/o

Answer 35

Drinking

Question 36

Plasm

Answer 36

Jelly

Question 37

Ptosis

Answer 37

Drooping

Question 38

Respiration

Answer 38

Literally “breathing”, but used to describe the process of turning oxygen into energy

Question 39

Ret/e

Answer 39

Net

Question 40

Rib/o

Answer 40

A sugar which is the basis for many molecules

Question 41

Soma

Answer 41

Body

Question 42

stasis

Answer 42

stopping; holding

Question 43

transcript

Answer 43

Changing the form without changing the language
(Oral to written, or DNA to RNA)

Question 44

Transmissibility

Answer 44

The ability of a disease to move from one person to another

Question 45

Ves

Answer 45

Bladder

Question 46

Virulence

Answer 46

The severity of a disease

Question 47

Virus

Answer 47

Latin “Slimy liquid”, “poison”

Question 48

Zym/o

Answer 48

Leavening (the chemical process that makes bubbles in bread and beer)