Prefix and Suffix Biology

• a/an


  not
• ab

  away, off
• ad?

  towards, to
• afferent?

  to carry
• amphi?

  on both sides
• anterior?

  before, in front of
• antho?


  flower
• anthropo?


  human, man
• apical?

  tip
• arthro?


  jointed
• asc/asco?


  sac
• aster?


  star
• auto?

  self
• bi/di?

  twice, double
• bio?


  life
• blast?

  embryo
• cardio?


  heart
• caudal?

  tail
• cephalo?


  head
• cervical?

  neck
• chaeto?


  hair, bristles
• chloro?


  green
• chondro?

  Cartilage
• clad?

  branch, sprout
• chord?


  string
• chrome?


  color
• cocci?

  grain
• coel?

  hollow, cavity
• cranio?

  skull
• cyano?

  blue and green
• cyst?

  bladder, pouch
• cyte/cyto?

  container, vessel, cell
• dactyl?

  finger
• dent/don't?

  teeth
• derm/dermis?

  skin
• diplo?

  twofold
• distal?

  situated away from
• dorsal?

  back
• echino?

  spiny, bristly
• eco?

  house/home