Biology 1
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Extra Prefix and Suffix Practice
Use the prefix and suffix explanations (old handout) to help you fill in the
missing suffix or prefix.
1. Trevor had too much sugar at lunch and is now ________active (above normal activity) and bouncing off of the
walls and driving everyone nuts!
2. Phil has a really old radio that only plays music out of one speaker. He doesn't listen in stereo but listens in
________.
3. Suzanne does not like many people. She is kind of ________social. (against people)
4. I like my milk to have some cream in it but is has to be mixed in completely so the cream isn't floating at the top.
For this reason, I always get milk that is _______genized. (same everywhere)
(Hint: look at a milk carton if you aren't sure what prefix to use)
5. Jeannie is afraid (or dislikes) of enclosed spaces. She is claustro___________.
6. Justin is studying the economy of the entire United States (a large country). He is studying _______economics.
7. Joseph belongs to a religion that allows him to have more than one wife. He has many wives and is a
_______gamist.
8. Giselle married her second husband before her divorce to her first husband was finalized. She now has 2
husbands and is a ______gamist.
9. The nucleus contains many of the most important parts of a cell. However, the _____plasm also has many
important functions.
10. When you body takes in table sugar (sucrose), it must break it down into simpler compounds using an enzyme
called sucr_______.
11. If you get an injection, they use a _______dermic needle to inject the medicine below the skin.
12. If you draw a triangle with 2 equal sides, you are drawing an ____celes triangle.
13. Suzanne tried to give blood to the Red Cross. When they tested her blood for iron, they found the iron level
was low. She has a condition known as an_______.
14. Jenny has a chronic condition that makes her sleepy all of the time. Her condition is often referred to as
narc_______.
15. The formula for CO2 is carbon ____oxide because there is 1 carbon atom and 2 oxygen atoms.
16. Paula liked to doodle in her notebook. Her doodles were random without any pattern or design. Her drawings
were ____symmetrical.
17. The United States gets almost 20% of its electricity from damming rivers using a type of energy called
_______power. (or water power)
18. Jason likes to read and collects lots of books. In fact, you could refer to Jason as a biblio______. (Biblio
means book)
19. Sheila normally likes living in Michigan but when the temperatures plunge below zero, she thinks it's too cold.
She is thinking about moving to Florida where there never are any ____zero temperatures. (So what do you think
about hurricanes Sheila?)
20. When Kristy's grandmother gets cold her joints swell up (or get inflamed) and she complains about her
arthr______.
21. Jim's mother and father both have brown eyes but Jim has blue eyes. Jim knows that brown eyes are a
dominant trait over blue eyes so the only way he could have gotten his blue eyes were if his parents had 2 different
genes for eye color. His parents must be ________zygous for brown eyes.
22. Daniel likes learning about rocks and is thinking about studying geo_____ when he goes to college.
23. We are studying cells in biology. They are so small we need a _______scope to see them.
24. We had to make brochures in art class today. The teacher told us they had to folded into 3 parts. She called
them _____fold brochures.
25. We used alcohol burners in science class. Before we used them, we had to fill them with ethan____.
26. Normally in Physics we measure acceleration. We did an experiment yesterday that measured how long it took
for a car to lose speed and come to a complete stop. We were measuring ___cceleration. (we took away its speed)
27. Yesterday we watched video that showed several ____mes that each contain specific life forms adapted for an
area's climate.
In case you misplaced your
prefix/suffix handout, here
it is again.
aanti-
Without or Lacking
Against
hydro-
Water
-philic
Attracted to (liking)
-phobic
Repelled (dislike)
sub-
Below
-itis
Inflammation
homo-
Same
hetero-
Different
de-
Take away
-ology
Study of
bio-
Life
poly-
Many
mono-
One
di- (bi-)
Two
tri-
Three
cyto-
Pertaining to the cell
-ase
Enzyme
-ol
Alcohol
micro-
Small
macro-
Large
-osis
A condition of
-emia
Pertaining to blood
iso-
Equal
hyper-
Above
hypo-
Below