词根：-gen-, -gener-, -germ-

【词根含义】：生殖,出生

【词根来源】：来源于原始印欧语gen-(生育)在拉丁语中产生的词汇genus(种类),gens(人种),generare(生殖),generalis(全体的,总的,普遍的)和germen(发芽,分枝)等。

【同源单词】：benign, engine, engineer, engineering, gender

词根：-heter-

【词根含义】：异,其它

【词根来源】：来源于希腊语heteros(其它)。

【同源单词】：heterogeneous

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：genus, genesis-, -gen, -gene, -genesis, -genetic, -genic, -geny, -genous

【来源及含义】Latin: birth, beget; descent, origin, creation, inception, beginning, race, sort; kind, class

【同源单词】aerospace engineering, agenesis, autogenous, benign, benignant, benignantly

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