How to Use biology in a Sentence

biology

noun
  • Here’s a quick brush-up from high school biology class: There are 20 amino acids, and your body can only make 11 of them.
    Jasmine Gomez, Women's Health, 31 Mar. 2023
  • As a quick biology lesson, this is where the real magic happens for hair growth and health.
    Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 11 July 2023
  • During the past 10 years medicine has started to take a different approach based on the biology of aging (a field called geroscience).
    Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Her roommate Olivia Pare, a second-year biology major, wishes the politicians would leave their school alone.
    Jocelyn Gecker, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The online curriculum and live lessons focus on biology and chemistry and are taught in English.
    Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 July 2023
  • At the heart of this effort are some of biology’s most fundamental questions.
    Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 12 Oct. 2023
  • She, too, had been obsessed with Mrs. Lacks’s history ever since learning about it in a biology class.
    Penelope Green, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • And this idea of ecology, our awareness of the network or web of connections in physics and nature and biology, there’s a sense of wonder in that connection.
    David Marchese Photograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Bringing the physics of liquid crystals to bear on tissues is a new way to understand the messy, complicated world of biology, Hirst said.
    WIRED, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Granted, that was before biology had made the transition to the digital world.
    Michael Specter, STAT, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Shipway and Peter Cotton said that much of their field of marine biology, such as fieldwork, can’t be cheated with a machine.
    Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Print Cell division, or the process of how daughter cells emerge from a mother cell, is fundamental to biology.
    Somin Lee, The Conversation, 20 July 2023
  • Volk, who passed away in 2022, was a biology professor at UW-La Crosse who was long respected for his morel expertise.
    Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Budding biology fields, planet science, and even the search through the skies for messages are all part of one cosmic attempt to open one more window into our universe.
    Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Stallworth and Drew Gentry, her biology teacher who was fossil hunting with her, followed the trail of bone up a hill and discovered the skull of a prehistoric whale that may be a new species.
    Outdoor Life, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Prudes are going to be prudish, so no point in trying to appease them in a show that’s all about the havoc that’s wrought when human biology is denied by moralistic zealots.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Jimenez was a former marine biology student, according to the Post and Standard.
    Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Yet that is probably the least of their contributions to biology.
    The Conversation, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The two college biology students and a pair of local high school seniors, one in a LeBron James jersey, hop in, along with a yellow village dog who will trot alongside the motley crew all night.
    Nina Burleigh, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The university’s Shark Lab was founded in 1966 to study the sensory biology and behavior of sharks.
    Warren Kulo | Wkulo@al.com, al, 13 June 2023
  • In much of the adoption world, whose foundational premise is that love is stronger than biology, color-blindness still seemed like a precious and viable ideal.
    Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The answer lies in both our biology and our psychology.
    Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2023
  • As a result of this work, researchers now have a better sense of the biology behind emotional contagion in zebrafish.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Take our biology reader survey and you will be entered to win free Quanta merchandise.
    Quanta Magazine, 7 Dec. 2023
  • The White House, for example, has warned against open source AI models aiding in synthetic biology that could create the next pandemic.
    Richard Nieva, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Lindsay Roth, a 45-year-old nurse and mom to three elementary and middle school boys in Palm Beach County, said that regardless of gender, students need to be taught the truth about science and biology in school.
    Rachel Janfaza, Glamour, 28 Mar. 2023
  • If tissue could be accurately described as a liquid crystal, then the set of tools that physicists use to predict how crystals respond to forces could be put to work in biology, Hirst said.
    WIRED, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Koonce-Gaines is the science department chair but her specialty is biology.
    Alia Wong, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The open discussions of reproductive biology were seen as obscene, and the concept that a child might choose her own religion was seen as dangerous.
    Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Still, even after many decades of use, scientists don’t know how ECT alters the brain’s underlying biology.
    Elizabeth Landau, Quanta Magazine, 18 Mar. 2024

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