(n.) A student of biology; one versed in the science of biology.
Example Sentences:
(1) For evolutionary biologists population variability per se has proven of interest.
(2) Hence, autoantibodies are useful tools for the molecular biologist as well as the clinician.
(3) The cultured cells were characterized for growth rate and growth potential, morphology by light and electron microscopy, presence of esterases and cytokeratins, and sensitivity to storage at 4 degrees C. Cultured mammary epithelial cells from milk may be useful to dairy scientists and mammary gland biologists.
(4) The work of epidemiologists and biologists results in no less heterogeneous results.
(5) A desirable terminology, therefore, is one that is familiar to molecular biologists and can facilitate comparisons with other systems--immune, endocrine, nervous--where similar methods and terms are in use.
(6) The recent advances in the kinetics of the reactions of muscle proteins have increased still further the need for understanding among muscle physiologists-and other biologists-of those parts of thermodynamics that concern them directly, notably those relating work and chemical change.
(7) Domain-specific antibodies have already increased the molecular resolution with which cell biologists can immunologically examine the function of cellular proteins.
(8) When the eminent biologist TH Huxley met Gladstone for the first time in 1877, in the company of Darwin , he exclaimed afterwards: “Why, put him in the middle of a moor, with nothing in the world but his shirt, and you could not prevent him being anything he liked.” This is my view of Cicero: drop him into Westminster or Washington or any other political culture and he would instantly begin clambering to the top.
(9) Finally the authors report the necessity of strict collaboration systems between clinical experts, geneticists, biologists and informaticians.
(10) This disease has challenged cell biologists, it has served as a basis for intense scientific inquiry, and it has defied the therapeutic attempts of pediatric oncologists.
(11) Stephen Curry , a structural biologist at Imperial College London, says that scientists need to come to a new arrangement with publishers fit for the online age and that "for a long time, we've been taken for a ride and it's got ridiculous".
(12) Three British biologists have discovered that in the "bacteriophage phi X 174 genes D and E are translated from the same DNA sequence but in different reading frames."
(13) Some diseases, notably AIDS, are a much greater challenge and it will need all the expertise of molecular biologists and immunologists to devise a vaccine which may control the disease.
(14) The recent discovery of hypervariable VNTR (variable number of tandem repeat) loci has led to much excitement among population biologists regarding the feasibility of deriving individual estimates of relatedness in field populations by DNA fingerprinting.
(15) The traditional definition of the fibroblast based solely on morphological criteria, which has satisfied most biologists for years, now needs reappraisal.
(16) Among the "non invasive methods" available for biologists, salivary determinations seem of interest, particularly in endocrinology and clinical pharmacology.
(17) To this end, a 'polymorphic programming environment' has been developed which represents both an expert system and a high-level language for theoretical chemists and molecular biologists.
(18) During the last 25 years, cutaneous biologists have been particularly interested in abnormal cutaneous vascular patterns, the profusion of capillary anastomoses, the leakiness of venules, clotting, fibrinolysis, and blood viscosity.
(19) The biologist may prefer to use plasma rather than serum to facilitate sampling procedures in his laboratory.
(20) Rapid advances in site-directed mutagenesis and total gene synthesis combined with new expression systems in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells have provided the molecular biologist with tools for modification of existing proteins to improve catalytic activity, stability and selectivity, for construction of chimeric molecules and for synthesis of completely novel molecules that may be endowed with some useful activity.
Botanist
Definition:
(n.) One skilled in botany; one versed in the knowledge of plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) We become like botanists who think that being able to label a specimen means we know all we need to know about it.
(2) The gardenia and poinsettia are named after New World physician-botanists Alexander Garden and Joel Poinsett.
(3) This study may be useful to pharmacologists and chemists interested in plants with medicinal properties, as well as to botanists with ethnobotanical interests.
(4) The field of chronobiology, the study of the rhythms in plants and animals, was restricted to botanists for centuries.
(5) At least four of the 10 doctors of the First Fleet were keen botanists, and their endeavours established a precedent for medical "botanizing" which has become a living tradition over the ensuing 200 years.
(6) This classification scheme, which most closely reflects the evolutionary history, molecular biology, genetics and ultrastructure of extant life, requires changes in social organization of biologists, many of whom as botanists and zoologists, still behave as if there were only two important kingdoms (plants and animals).
(7) Give him a butterfly net and he could pass for a louche Victorian botanist.
(8) The relationship of green algae to land plants has greatly interested botanists for more than a century.
(9) Only one in seven universities now provide practical courses for trainee botanists in looking at plant disease.
(10) Pharmaceutical scientists and botanists from all over the world met at the University of Illinois to map a 3-year program for collecting and testing plants which may be effective in regulating fertility.
(11) Not much of a botanist myself, I did pick (at the guide's prompting) a handful of wild oregano – currently drying in my kitchen – and was envious of the wild cistus flowers that have never sprawled so successfully in my garden.
(12) In Europe, the first people who showed any interest for the cocaplant were the botanists.
(13) Plant identification in response to poison control inquiries poses problems for medical staff and botanists alike.
(14) The botanist provided his identification results through a blinded process.
(15) Jirí Josef Camel (1661-1706), a pharmacist and botanist, was born in Brno, educated at a grammar school and then joined the Jesuit Order as a laic brother.
(16) Once the patient was treated according to our normal protocol, the plant specimen was sent to a botanist for a second identification.
(17) He acquired an high reputation as a doctor and botanist and was invited to a medical chair at the University of Ferrara (1541), which he left to go to Ancona (1547).
(18) As a botanist Zinn was honoured by the fact that a flower (Zinnie) was named after him.
(19) Atherstone of Grahamstown--the first doctor to use a general anaesthetic (ether) outside America and Europe--is a 19th century example of the naturalist physician as an ardent botanist; he was also a geologist and identified the first diamond found in South Africa.
(20) Philosopher, anatomist, paleontologist, botanist, educator, and natural scientist in the purest sense of the work, Leidy's interest in the humanities and in all aspects of nature lent itself to his exact descriptions of new species and unchartered anatomic realms.