Sentences with phrase «thing about biology»

The great thing about biology is doing things for yourself.

By euthanizing the snake, scientists can learn many things about the biology of the animal — for example, is it eating at - risk species or is it reproductively active?

Not exact matches

«The idea of being able to use biology to design and engineer living things that can do things like cure disease or eliminate organ waiting lists, or even revert climate change, or help us live on other planets — that's more what was exciting about it,» he says.

Probably you've moved on from this post, and I will too — but I don't think by «been there, done that» you meant «read about and understood many things about evolutionary biology and paleontology».

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archaeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archaeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archaeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

I think given equal opportunities there will be a natural inclination for many towards traditional roles and that this is healthy, has nothing to do with any artificial social construct but is natural and comes out of biology and now might be the time to be having open discussions about this kind of thing without having to face the fear of being labelled misogynistic for doing so or with feeling fearful of any threat to equality.

Your god — via the itinerant bronze - age shepherds he «talked» to were totally ignorant about the science of se.xual orientation (like he was totally ignorant about most things in biology, chemistry, and physics).

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

(The fact that your undergrad biology course didn't cover «microbiome» Isa really weird thing to be «just asking questions about.

The intriguing thing to me about working in agricultural biotechnology at this moment is watching how a multitude of subdisciplines such as plant physiology, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, bioinformatics, and molecular and conventional breeding are blending into one big continuum where the lines begin to blur.

Meanwhile, his team has continued to learn new things about elephant seal biology from ongoing studies of the northern elephant seals at UC's Año Nuevo Natural Reserve.

Structure equals function: If there's one thing we all learned about proteins in high school biology, that would be it.

Without understanding the first thing about molecular biology, he is contributing to one of the knottiest problems of modern science.

«The scariest thing about the postdoc is that you have to do all the work and get a job,» concedes Prosanta Chakrabarty, assistant professor of biology and curator of ichthyology at Louisiana State University (LSU).

Friedberg understood something about his students that others missed, Bitton says: He «recognized that not everybody could learn the things they were teaching in traditional biology classes from a textbook or in 2D.»

The research reveals how natural biology, through evolutionary experimentation, can teach us new things about how animals naturally cope with conditions that would cause disease in humans.

«Scientists have learned a lot about development, gene regulation, and cancer biology, among other things, by studying C. elegans.

I want to look at our best innovations and say, in the face of an epidemic, where we have to scientifically go fast, can't we use some of our new things about how we understand molecular biology, about plasma, it's about production?»

In a third - floor loft where programmers build Internet start - ups, Mackenzie Cowell is talking about the tools he and like - minded young colleagues are using to fuel what they hope will be the next big thing in biology...

Years ago when I was pursuing my biology degree a prof told me that the thing about Linus Pauling is that no one has ever been able to prove him wrong.

While many people blame standardized testing for narrowing the elementary school curriculum to reading and math, the real culprit is «a longstanding pedagogical notion that the best way to teach kids reading comprehension is by giving them skills — strategies like «finding the main idea — rather than instilling knowledge about things like the Civil War or human biology.»

It's a longstanding pedagogical notion that the best way to teach kids reading comprehension is by giving them skills — strategies like «finding the main idea» — rather than instilling knowledge about things like the Civil War or human biology.

As it turns out, we undergraduate biology majors were right about one thing — the quantum universe is mind - bending.

And, as well as catching «em all (or generally failing to in my case), I think plenty of us gamers might have inadvertently learned a thing or two about real - life biology as well.

I have a PhD in molecular biology, so I don't know a thing about serious climate science, but i do know about how science shd be done.

As for the why: «Actually, I think it's a great way to teach kids about evolutionary biology and developmental biology and all sorts of things,» Horner says in his talk.

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