How to Use biology in a Sentence

biology

noun
Definition of biologynext
  • The biology major still sees her doctors for scans and checkups every six months.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, People.com, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The result is a totally new approach to the rainbow trend through the precision of chronometry and the harmony of human biology.
    — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 3 Nov. 2022
  • And the research may have broader implications for our understanding of biology.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 13 Nov. 2022
  • Nursing is rooted in the sciences of physiology, anatomy, chemistry and biology.
    — Pritma Dhillon-Chattha, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
  • The names moved quickly from the margins of a single book to the center of botany, and then all of biology.
    — Mark Barna, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • The professor of biology quelled worries about the overlap area of the two broods.
    — Raven Brunner, Peoplemag, 22 May 2024
  • As a quick biology lesson, this is where the real magic happens for hair growth and health.
    — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 11 July 2023
  • Many aspects of the moa biology remain a mystery, the researchers said.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 23 May 2024
  • The class includes an in-hive experience and instruction in the biology and care of bees.
    — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2024
  • In Nazi Germany, the veneer of science and biology was used as a pretense for genocide.
    — Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2024
  • That’s when Cooper King’s grandfather Mark was hired to teach biology and chemistry and coach wrestling and football.
    — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 21 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • Despite so many advances in biology, some realms of the human body remain out of reach—such as the in-utero world of a developing fetus.
    — Paolo De Coppi, TIME, 2 May 2024
  • The endeavor has had a far-reaching impact on biology, medicine and many other fields.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Luck of the blood draw A group of biology students were the first to discover these unusual antibodies — quite by chance — back in 1989.
    — Christina Szalinski, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Then too, Earth simply lacked the chemistry to produce biology.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 30 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • But studies that have linked Denisovan mutations to the biology of modern humans have been few and far between.
    — Freda Kreier, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • While working with a study buddy for a biology class, Johnson’s inability to read came to light.
    — Tiffany Coleman, oregonlive, 12 Feb. 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
  • In a 2020 podcast clip that surfaced this week, Vance was discussing the part his mother-in-law, a biology professor, played in raising her grandchild.
    — Axios, 16 Aug. 2024
  • 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

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