WORD DERIVATIONS HANDOUT #1
[to accompany lab exercises 1-2]
General Biology - Biol 1009
Bill Lamberts

autotroph (auto-, "self" + -troph, "nourishment")
bacterium [pl. bacteria] (baster-, staff" + -ium, "little")
chemoautotroph (chemo-, having to do with chemistry + auto-, "self" + -troph, "nourishment")
chloroplast (chloro-, "yellowish green" + -plast, "particle")
cilium [pl. cilia]! (L. "eyelash")
cyanobacterium (cyano-, "dark blue" + bacterium)
cytoplasm (Cyt-. "cell" + -plasm, "a formed material")
ectoplasm (ecto-, "outer" + -plasm, "a formed material")
endoplasm ( endo- "inner" + -plasm, "a formed material")
flagellum [pl. flagella] (L. "whip")
glycocalyx ( glyco-, " sugar" + -calyx, " sheath")
heterotroph (hetero-, "other, different" + -troph, nourishment")
macro- ("large")
micro- ("small")
mycelium [pl. mycelia] (myc-, "fungus" + -helium, "callus")
nucleolus (L. "little nucleus")
nucleus (L. "kernel, little nut")
phagocytosis (phago-, "to eat" + cyt-, "cell" + -osis, "a process")
photoautotroph (photo-, "light" + auto-, "self" + -troph, "nourishment")
pinocytosis (pino-, "to drink" + cyt-, "cell" + -osis, "a process")
plasma (L. "a formed element")
protozoa (proton "first" + -zoa, "animal")
pseudopodium [pl. pseudopodia] (pseudo-, "false" + -podium, . "foot")
rhizoid (rhiz-, "root" + "-oid, "like, having the shape of")
sporangiophore (spoor-, "seed" + -angio-, "vessel" + -phore, "bearing")
sporangium [pl. sporangia] (spore "seed" + -angium, "vessel")
stolon (Gk. "branch, sucker")
trichocyst (tricho-, "hair" + -cyst, "bladder")
vacuole (vacu-, "empty space" + -one, "little")
Sarcodina (sarco-, "flesh")
Ciliata ( cilia-, "eyelash")
Mastigophora (mastigo-, "whip" + -phore, "to bear")
Sporozoa (sport "seed/spore" + -zoa, "animal")

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