| A | B |
|---|
| a | not or without (asexual: type of reproduction not involving fertilization) |
| ana | again (anaphase: mitotic stage when sister chromatids separate) |
| auto | self (autosome: the chromosomes that do not determine sex) |
| carcin | an ulcer (carcinoma: cancers originating in the external or internal coverings of the body) |
| centro | the center; mere = a part (centromere: the centralized region joining two sister chromatids) |
| chemo | chemical (chemotherapy: type of cancer therapy using drugs that disrupt cell division) |
| chiasm | cross-mark (chiasma: the sites where crossing-over have occurred) |
| chroma | colored (chromosome: DNA-containing structure) |
| cyto | cell; kinet = move (cytokinesis: division of the cytoplasm) |
| di | two (diploid: cells that contain two homologous sets of chromosomes) |
| fertil | fruitful (fertilization: process of fusion of sperm and egg cell) |
| gamet | a wife or husband (gamete: egg or sperm) |
| haplo | single (haploid: cells that contain only one chromosome of each homologous pair) |
| homo | like (homologous: like chromosomes that form a pair) |
| inter | between (interphase: time when a cell metabolizes and performs its various functions) |
| karyo | nucleus (karyotype: a display of the chromosomes of a cell) |
| leuko | white (leukemia: cancer of white blood cells) |
| mal | bad or evil (malignant: type of tumor that migrates away from its site of origin) |
| mei | less (meiosis: the division of a diploid nucleus into four haploid daughter nuclei) |
| meta | between (metaphase: mitotic stage when the chromosomes are lined up in the cell’s middle) |
| mito | a thread (mitosis: the division of a diploid cell into two diploid cells) |
| non | not; dis = separate (nondisjunction: the result when paired chromosomes fail to separate) |
| poly | many (polyploid: having more than two sets of homologous chromosomes in each somatic cell) |
| pro | before (prophase: mitotic stage when the nuclear membrane first break ups) |
| sarco | flesh (sarcoma: cancers that arise in tissues that support the body) |
| soma | body (somatic: body cells with 46 chromosomes in humans) |
| telo | end (telophase: final mitotic stage when the nuclear envelope reforms) |
| tetra | four (tetrad: the orientation of homologous pairs of chromosomes with four "arms") |
| tri | three (trisomy 21: a condition in which a person has three number 21 chromosomes) |
