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biologist

[bahy-ol-uh-jist] / baɪˈɒl ə dʒɪst /


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I had asked Roden-Reynolds, a public health biologist, to inspect my yard because a lone star tick bit me as I was chopping wood last fall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

"There have been happy tears in my office because this is what nature should be," said conservation biologist Marissa Parrott.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

"Molecular models based on living animals can predict the past, but fossils provide the evidence needed to test those predictions," said study coauthor Paul Velazco, a comparative biologist at Arcadia University.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

Even before the human genome was fully sequenced, the biologist Sydney Brenner said that with a complete DNA sequence and a sufficiently large computer, he could “compute the organism.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Moreover, Naomi was a sister of England’s most clever and eccentric biologist, J. B. S. Haldane.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

P-22 was first discovered living in Griffith Park by a group of biologists in 2012, according to the release.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

For more than six decades, evolutionary biologists have debated whether an unusual genetic system shared by ants, bees and wasps helped drive one of nature's most sophisticated forms of social organization: eusociality.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026

And the author draws on the warning of Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin, evolutionary biologists who cautioned against reading every trait as a perfect adaptation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Its variety and complexity has fascinated biologists, but with so many different songs, it has been difficult to study on a global scale.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

For the first time, the biologists will know what other kinds of life are possible.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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