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BIOLOGIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(biology) a scientist who studies living organisms
Synonyms:
biologist; life scientist
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("biologist" is a kind of...):
scientist (a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences)
Domain category:
biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "biologist"):
animal scientist; zoologist (a specialist in the branch of biology dealing with animals)
vivisectionist (a biologist who cuts open live animals for research)
systematist; taxonomer; taxonomist (a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior)
sociobiologist (a biologist who studies the biological determinants of social behavior)
radiobiologist (a biologist who studies the effects of radiation on living organisms)
physiologist (a biologist specializing in physiology)
neurobiologist (a specialist in neurobiology)
natural scientist; naturalist (a biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology))
molecular biologist (a biologist who studies the structure and activity of macromolecules essential to life)
microbiologist (a specialist in microbiology)
geneticist (a biologist who specializes in genetics)
ecologist (a biologist who studies the relation between organisms and their environment)
cytologist (a biologist who studies the structure and function of cells)
botanist; phytologist; plant scientist (a biologist specializing in the study of plants)
bacteriologist (a biologist who studies bacteria)
Instance hyponyms:
Louis Pasteur; Pasteur (French chemist and biologist whose discovery that fermentation is caused by microorganisms resulted in the process of pasteurization (1822-1895))
Morgan; Thomas Hunt Morgan (United States biologist who formulated the chromosome theory of heredity (1866-1945))
Kendrew; Sir John Cowdery Kendrew (English biologist noted for studies of the molecular structure of blood components (born in 1917))
Huxley; Thomas Henry Huxley; Thomas Huxley (English biologist and a leading exponent of Darwin's theory of evolution (1825-1895))
Ernst Heinrich Haeckel; Haeckel (German biologist and philosopher; advocated Darwinism and formulated the theory of recapitulation; was an exponent of materialistic monism (1834-1919))
Delbruck; Max Delbruck (United States biologist (born in Germany) who studied how viruses infect living cells (1906-1981))
Carson; Rachel Carson; Rachel Louise Carson (United States biologist remembered for her opposition to the use of pesticides that were hazardous to wildlife (1907-1964))
Alexis Carrel; Carrel (French surgeon and biologist who developed a way to suture and graft blood vessels (1873-1944))
Beadle; George Beadle; George Wells Beadle (United States biologist who discovered how hereditary characteristics are transmitted by genes (1903-1989))
Derivation:
biology (the science that studies living organisms)
biology (characteristic life processes and phenomena of living organisms)
Context examples:
"The great migrations of the world have been inspiring people for hundreds of years," said David Toews, a biologist at Penn State and leader of the research team.
(New insights into genetic basis of bird migration, National Science Foundation)
The biologists looked at the genes in root tip cells to understand whether and how the genes were activated when covered with water and deprived of oxygen.
(Grains in the rain, National Science Foundation)
Because the biologists used computational simulations, they were able to look at the full range of potential hurricane sizes — from storms that caused no bird deaths to storms that were more severe.
(Coastal birds can weather the storm, but not the sea, National Science Foundation)
The presence of walruses in Iceland in the past and their apparent disappearance as early as the Settlement and Commonwealth periods (A.D. 870–1262) have long puzzled biologists.
(Extinction of Icelandic walrus coincides with Norse settlement, National Science Foundation)
Biologist Scott Mills of the University of Montana, who began studying snowshoe hares in the 1990s, says finding them has become much easier as average winter snow duration has decreased over time.
(Twenty-one species adapted to disappear in the snow. Then, the snow disappeared, National Science Foundation)
Mule deer populations are closely monitored and counted by biologists and land managers, in part to determine population trends over time, which helps them set the proper number of hunting permits to issue.
(Tracking Deer by NASA Satellite, NASA)
With three decades of data, the biologists realized that in chambers with high levels of carbon dioxide, the total biomass of the marsh sedges increased by 20%.
(High carbon dioxide can create 'shrinking stems' in marshes, National Science Foundation)
"We lost 98 percent of the wildebeest population, 75 percent of the zebra population and 30 percent of the elephant population," said Susan Alberts, a biologist at Duke University.
(Born during a drought: Bad news for baboons, NSF)
The work is the result of a collaboration among Naveen Bisht, a scientist at the National Institute of Plant Genome Research in New Delhi, India; Joseph Jez, a plant biologist at Washington University; and Jonathan Gershenzon of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany.
(Is a milder mustard on the way?, National Science Foundation)
Led by molecular biologist Chao-Qiang Lai from Agricultural Research Service’s (ARS) Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory at Tufts University, Boston, the study found the same epigenetic mark also is likely associated with greater appetite, and this can result in greater food consumption and a higher BMI.
(International Research Team Finds Correlation Between Genetics and Obesity Is Modified by Diet, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
