词根词缀：geno-, gen-, genit-, gener-, -gen

【来源及含义】Greek > Latin: race, kind; line of descent; origin, creation; pertaining to sexual relations, reproduction, or heredity; and more recently, a gene or genes

【同源单词】abiogenesis, abiogenetic, abiogenetically, abiogenous, acrogen, acrometagenesis

词根词缀：heter-, hetero-

【来源及含义】Greek: different, other, another, unlike; irregular, abnormal

【相关描述】This Greek element forms many scientific and other terms, often in opposition to homo-. Sometimes it is also the antonym of auto-, homoeo-, iso-, ortho-, and syn-.

【相关词根词缀】 Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units meaning "another, other, different, alternating, varied, changing": ali-; allo-; alter-; allelo-; mut-; poikilo-; reciproc-; vari-.

【同源单词】heteracanth, heteracanthous, heteracmy, heteradelphus, heteradenic, heteralius