How to Use biology in a Sentence
biology
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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 -
This should be at the heart of working with biology to design or build anything that humans use.
— Eben Bayer, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022 -
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 -
The science and the biology that Shipway specializes in can help inform what should happen to preserve the wreck, and others like it.
— Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2022 -
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 -
The biology major still sees her doctors for scans and checkups every six months.
— Wendy Grossman Kantor, People.com, 10 Oct. 2024 -
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 -
Lead, with its heavy atomic weight, interferes with all of this as it gets swapped in for blood cells, neurons, and other crucial bits of biology.
— Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 16 June 2022 -
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 -
If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
— Cameron Jenkins, Good Housekeeping, 29 Apr. 2022 -
The endeavor has had a far-reaching impact on biology, medicine and many other fields.
— Katie Hunt, CNN, 5 Oct. 2024 -
His zeal for the bug was triggered in the winter of his freshman year at Purdue, when he was required to collect an aquatic insect for a biology class.
— Robert O'Harrow Jr., Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2022 -
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 -
While students often opt for a STEM major like biology, it is not required.
— Kristen Moon, Forbes, 26 May 2022 -
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 -
Invisible Threat Perhaps best known for preserving dead frogs in high school biology labs, formaldehyde is as ubiquitous in industry as salt is in cooking.
— Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 3 Dec. 2024 -
The identification of the Orange gene not only confirms Little's predictions, but also reveals an entirely new pathway in pigment biology.
— Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
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