biologist
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of biologist
Explanation
A biologist is a scientist who focuses on living organisms, including plants and animals. Wildlife biologists might specialize in studying African elephants. Biologists study a wide variety of life forms, from single-celled organisms to primates, and conduct research in many different areas, from the spreading of pathogens to the details of evolution. A marine biologist studies sea creatures and a microbiologist might study algae or bacteria. The word biologist is rooted in the Greek bios, or "life."
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Example Sentences
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Biologist Tim Shields, who founded a company that develops tortoise conservation technology, was once opposed to head-starting because he thought it was unnatural and the tortoises would be inferior at survival.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2024
The keynote speaker was co-author Michelle Heck, adjunct professor at BTI and Cornell University and Research Molecular Biologist at USDA-ARS, who spoke about her innovative research to prevent citrus greening disease.
From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2024
Biologist Stephen Proulx at the University of California, Santa Barbara calls the new study’s approach “very clever.”
From Science Magazine • May 24, 2024
Biologist Dr Rachel Grant, at London South Bank University, says such interspecies "adoptions" are likely the result of "fixed action patterns", in which the adopting animal is responding to a "certain trigger" from the adoptee.
From BBC • Nov. 7, 2023
Each may learn from the other; and best of all, the Biologist seems to have information which can be of the greatest service in their common work of building sound societies.
From The Social Direction of Evolution An Outline of the Science of Eugenics by Kellicott, William E.
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