Bunny Lover wrote:
> Can someone help me with the roots for describing temperature preferences
> of micro-organisms? I'm looking for the roots for psychro- and thermo-
> and preferably for philic, duric, and trophic.
The easiest place to find these is in any good dictionary. Just look up a
word that has the same root, such as "durable" for "-duric."
psychro- Gr. adj. psychros (cold)
thermo- Gr. noun thermus (heat)
meso- Gr. noun mesos (middle)
euri- Gr. adj. eurys (broad, wide)
steno- Gr. adj. stenos (narrow)
-duric L. adj. durus (hard [able to withstand])
-philic Gr. adj. philos (loving)
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David R. Boone
Professor of Environmental Microbiology
Oregon Graduate Institute, Portland
503-690-1146
boone at ese.ogi.eduhttp://www.ese.ogi.edu/ese_docs/boone.html
