biologist
Other forms: biologists
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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(biology) a scientist who studies living organismssynonyms: life scientistexamples:George Wells BeadleUnited States biologist who discovered how hereditary characteristics are transmitted by genes (1903-1989)Alexis CarrelFrench surgeon and biologist who developed a way to suture and graft blood vessels (1873-1944)Rachel Louise CarsonUnited States biologist remembered for her opposition to the use of pesticides that were hazardous to wildlife (1907-1964)Max DelbruckUnited States biologist (born in Germany) who studied how viruses infect living cells (1906-1981)Ernst Heinrich HaeckelGerman biologist and philosopher; advocated Darwinism and formulated the theory of recapitulation; was an exponent of materialistic monism (1834-1919)Thomas Henry HuxleyEnglish biologist and a leading exponent of Darwin's theory of evolution (1825-1895)Sir John Cowdery KendrewEnglish biologist noted for studies of the molecular structure of blood components (born in 1917)Thomas Hunt MorganUnited States biologist who formulated the chromosome theory of heredity (1866-1945)Louis PasteurFrench chemist and biologist whose discovery that fermentation is caused by microorganisms resulted in the process of pasteurization (1822-1895)types:bacteriologista biologist who studies bacteriacytologista biologist who studies the structure and function of cellsecologista biologist who studies the relation between organisms and their environmentgeneticista biologist who specializes in geneticsmicrobiologista specialist in microbiologymolecular biologista biologist who studies the structure and activity of macromolecules essential to lifenatural scientist, naturalista biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology)neurobiologista specialist in neurobiologyphysiologista scientist who studies how living organisms functionradiobiologista biologist who studies the effects of radiation on living organismssociobiologista biologist who studies the biological determinants of social behaviorsystematist, taxonomer, taxonomista biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behaviorvivisectionista biologist who cuts open live animals for researchcytogeneticista geneticist who specializes in the cellular components associated with heredityethologista zoologist who studies the behavior of animals in their natural habitatsherpetologista zoologist who studies reptiles and amphibiansichthyologista zoologist who studies fisheslumpera taxonomist who classifies organisms into large groups on the basis of major characteristicsmalacologista zoologist specializing in the study of mollusksmammalogistone skilled in the study of mammalsmycologista botanist who specializes in the study of fungineuroscientista neurobiologist who specializes in the study of the brainornithologista zoologist who studies birdspomologistsomeone versed in pomology or someone who cultivates fruit treespropagatorsomeone who propagates plants (as under glass)protozoologista zoologist who studies protozoansdivider, splittera taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristicsvirologista specialist in virologyGray, Louis Harold GrayEnglish radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)type of:scientista person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences
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