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