Question

What are some important scientific prefixes?

Answer 1

Scientific prefixes:

1. Scientific prefixes are words added to the beginning of other words.
2. Some examples of the most common prefixes used in science are mentioned in the table below:

Prefix	Meaning	New word
Aden-	Gland	Adenocarcinoma
Bacter-	Bacteria	Bacteriophage
Carcin-	Cancer	Carcinogen
Desm-	To bind	Desmosome
Entom-	Insect	Entomology
Home-	Same	Homozygote
Intra-	Within	Intramuscular
Macro-	Large	Macrophage
Omni-	All	Omnivorous
Tox-	Poison	Toxicity