Element	Definition	Element	Definition
a- -able actino- aer- albo- ameb- amphi- amyl- an- ana- ant- anti- archae- asco- aur- aut- auto- bacillo- basid- bdell- bio- blast- bovi- brevi- butyr- campylo- carcin- caryo- caseo- caul- cerato- chlamydo- chloro- chrom- chryso- -cide cili- cleisto- co- con- cocci- coeno- col- colo- conidio- coryne- -cul -cut cyano- cyst- cyt- de- di- diplo- dia- dys- ec- ex- ecto- en- em- entero- eo- epi- erythro- eu- exo- extra- firmi- flagell- flav- fruct- -fy galacto- gamet- gastr- gel- -gen -genesis germ- germin- -gony gracili- halo- haplo- hema- hemato- hemo- hepat- herpes hetero- hist- hom- homo- hydr- hydro- hyper- hypo- im- inter- intra- io- iso- -itis karyo- kin- lacti- lepis- lepto- leuko- lip- lipo- -logy lopho- luc- luci- lute- luteo- -lysis macro-	absent, lack (abiotic) able to, capable of (viable) ray (actinomycetes) air (aerobic) white (streptomyces albus) change (ameboid) around (amphitrichous) starch (amylase) absent, lack of (anaerobic) up (anabolism) opposed to (antimicrobial) opposed to (antimicrobial) ancient (archaeobacteria) bag (ascus) gold (staphylococcus aureus) self (automorph) self (automorph) a little stick (bacillus) base, pedestal (basidium) leech (bdellovibrio) life (biology) bud (blastospore) cattle (mycobacterium bovis) short (lactobacillus brevis) butter (butyric acid) curved (campylobacter) cancer (carcinogen) a nut (eukaryote) cheese (caseous) a stalk (caulobacter) hron (keratin) covering (chlamydospores) green (chlorophyll) color (chromosome) golden (streptomyces chryseus) killing (bactericide) eyelash (cilia) closed (cleistothecium) together (concentric) together (concentric) berry (coccus) shared (coenocyte) colon (escherichia coli) colon (escherichia coli) dust (conidia) club (corynebacterium) small form (particle) the skin (firmicutes) blue (cyanobacteria) bladder (cystitis) cell (cytology) undoing, removal (deactivation) twice, double (diphlococci) twice, double (diphlococci) through, between (diaphragm) difficult, faulty (dysfunction) outside, away from (excrete) outside, away from (excrete) outside, away from (excrete) in, inside (encysted) in, inside (encysted) intestine (enterobacter) dawn, early (eobacterium) upon, over (epidemic) red (erythema) well, proper (eukaryote) outside, outer layer (exogenous) outside, beyond (extracellular) strong (bacillus firmus) a whip (flagellum) yellow (flavobacterium) fruit (fructose) to make (magnify) milk (galactose) to marry (gamete) stomach (gastritis) to stiffen (gel) an agent that initiates (pathogen) formation (pathogenesis) bud (germ) bud (germ) reproduction (schizogony) thin (aquaspirillum gracile) salt (halophile) one, single (haploid) blood (haemophilus) blood (haemophilus) blood (haemophilus) liver (hepatitis) creeping (herpes) different, other (heterotroph) tissue (histology) same (homofermenter) same (homofermenter) water (dehydration) water (dehydration) excess (hypertonic) below, deficient (hypotonic) not, in (impermeable) between (intercellular) within, inside (intracellular) violet (iodine) equal, same (isotonic) inflammation of (colitis) a nut (eukaryote) movement (streptokinase) milk (lactose) scaly (leprosy) thin (leptospira) whiteness (leukocyte) fat, lipid (lipase) fat, lipid (lipase) the study of (pathology) tuft (lophotrichous) light (luciferin) light (luciferin) yellow (micrococcus luteus) yellow (micrococcus luteus) break down (hydrolysis) largeness (macromolecules)	medosi- meningo- meso-meta- micro- -mnesia molli- -monas mono- morpho- multi- mur- muri- mus- mut- myco- -mycetoma -myces myxo- necro- -nema nigr- ob- oculo- -oecium -ecium -oid oligo- -oma -ont ortho- -osis pan- para- peri- phaeo- phago- -phil philo- -phore -phyll -phyte pil- plankto- plast- -pnea -pnoea pod- poly- post- pre- pro- pseudo- psychro- -ptera pyo- rhabdo- rhin- rhizo- rhodo- rod- rubri- rumin- saccharo- sapr- sacro- schizo- scolec- -scope -scopic semi- sept- septo- serr- sidero- siphon- -sis soma- speci- spiro- sporo- staphylo- -stasis strepto- sub- super- sym- syn- -taxi taxis- tener- thallo- therm- thio- -thrix -tome -tomy -tone -tonic tox- trans- tri- trich- -trope -troph -ty undul- uni- vaccin- vacu- vesic- vitr- -vorous xantho- xeno- xero- xylo- zoo- zygo- -zyme	faculty (mendosicutes) membrane (meningitis) middle (mesophile) beyond, transition (metabolism) smallness (microscope) memory (amnesia) soft (mollicutes) a unit (methylomonas) singleness (monotrichous) form (morphology) many (multinuclear) wall (murein) mouse (murine typhus) mouse (murine typhus) to change (mutation) a fungus (saccharomyces) a fungus (saccharomyces) a fungus (saccharomyces) slime, mucus (myxobacteriales) a corpse (necrosis) a thread (treponema) black (aspergillus niger) before, against (obstruction) eye (monocular) a house (perithecium) a house (perithecium) like, resembling (coccoid) small, few (oligiosaccharide) tumor (lymphoma) being, existing (schizont) straight, direct (orthomyxovirus) condition of (lysis) all, universal (pandemic) beside, neat (parasite) around (peritrichous) brown (phaeophyta) eat (phagocyte) liking, preferring (thermophile) liking, preferring (thermophile) bears, carries (conidiophore) leaf (chlorophyll) plant (saprophyte) a hair (pilus) wandering, roaming (plankton) formed (plastid) breathing (dyspnea) breathing (dyspnea) foot (pseudopod) many (polymorphism) after, behind (posterior) before, ahead of (prokaryote) before, ahead of (prokaryote) flase (pseudopod) cold (psychrophile) wing (diptera) pus (pyogenic) stick, rod (rhabdovirus) nose (rhinitis) root (rhizobium) red (rhodospirillum) gnaws (rodents) red (clostridiium rubrum) throat (ruminococcus) sugar (disaccharide) rotten (saprolegnia) flesh (sarcoma) split (schizomycetes) worm (scolex) watcher (microscope) watcher (microscope) half (semicircular) rottig (septic) partition (septum) notched (serrate) iron (siderococcus) tube (siphoaptera) condition of (lysis) body (somatic cells) particular things (species) coil (spirochete) spore (sporangium) grapelike cluster (staphylococcus) arrest, fixation (bacteriostatis) twisted (streptococcus) beneath, under (subcutaneous) above, upon (superior) together, with (synapse) together, with (synapse) to touch (chemotaxis) orderly arrangement (taxonomy) tender (tenericutes) plant body (thallus) heat (thermophile) sulfur (thiobacillus) a hair (peritrichous) to cut (appendectomy) to cut (appendectomy) strength (hypotonic) strength (hypotonic) poison (antitoxin) across, through (transport) three (trimester) a hair (peritrichous) turning (geotropic) food, nourishment (trophic) condition of, state (immunity) wavy (undulating) one (unicellular) cow (vaccination) empty (vacuoles) bladder (vesicle) glass (in vitro) eat (carnivore) yellow (xanthomonas) strange (axenic) dry (xerophyte) wood (xylose) animal (zoology yoke, joining (zygospore) ferment (enzyme)

	GENDER RULES (LATIN SUFFIXES)
	Feminine	Masculine	Neuter
Singular:	-a	-us	-um
Plural:	-ae	-i	-a
Examples:	alga,	fungus,	bacterium,
	algae	fungi	bacteria