biologist
C199
concept
A biologist is a scientist who studies living organisms and their interactions with each other and their environments to understand the principles governing life.
All labels observed (79)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| botanist | 272 |
| zoologist | 194 |
| biologist canonical | 146 |
| conservationist | 137 |
| neuroscientist | 99 |
| physiologist | 78 |
| taxonomist | 67 |
| evolutionary biologist | 63 |
| microbiologist | 50 |
| bacteriologist | 29 |
| marine biologist | 20 |
| ichthyologist | 16 |
| agricultural scientist | 14 |
| computational biologist | 13 |
| herpetologist | 13 |
| developmental biologist | 11 |
| structural biologist | 11 |
| embryologist | 10 |
| ethologist | 10 |
| parasitologist | 10 |
| microscopist | 9 |
| mammalogist | 8 |
| primatologist | 7 |
| wildlife biologist | 7 |
| astrobiologist | 5 |
| chemical biologist | 5 |
| plant biologist | 5 |
| bioinformatician | 4 |
| chronobiologist | 4 |
| histologist | 4 |
| German naturalist | 3 |
| behavioral biologist | 3 |
| field biologist | 3 |
| fisheries biologist | 3 |
| natural scientist | 3 |
| plant physiologist | 3 |
| animal behaviorist | 2 |
| conservation biologist | 2 |
| exobiologist | 2 |
| neurobiologist | 2 |
| protozoologist | 2 |
| stem cell biologist | 2 |
| systematist | 2 |
| systems biologist | 2 |
| American biologist | 1 |
| American zoologist | 1 |
| Austrian zoologist | 1 |
| Japanese biologist | 1 |
| Marine biologist | 1 |
| RNA biologist | 1 |
| animal behaviour scientist | 1 |
| bioacoustics researcher | 1 |
| biodiversity scientist | 1 |
| biogeochemist | 1 |
| biogerontologist | 1 |
| cognitive biologist | 1 |
| cytologist | 1 |
| evolutionary developmental biologist | 1 |
| experimental biologist | 1 |
| fisheries scientist | 1 |
| glycobiologist | 1 |
| heliobiologist | 1 |
| human exobiologist | 1 |
| kaiju biologist | 1 |
| mammalian systematist | 1 |
| molecular evolutionary biologist | 1 |
| nematologist | 1 |
| origin of life researcher | 1 |
| origin-of-life researcher | 1 |
| plant developmental biologist | 1 |
| plant scientist | 1 |
| population biologist | 1 |
| single-cell biologist | 1 |
| sociobiologist | 1 |
| subfield of behavioral ecology | 1 |
| біолог | 1 |
| еволюційний біолог | 1 |
| 生物学者 | 1 |
| 細胞生物学者 | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: biologist
Generated description
A biologist is a scientist who studies living organisms and their interactions with each other and their environments to understand the principles governing life.
Instances (1,189)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| Fred Gage | neuroscientist |
| Karl von Frisch | ethologist |
|
Moser
surface form:
May-Britt Moser
|
neuroscientist |
| Per Andersen | neuroscientist |
| Santiago Ramón y Cajal | neuroscientist |
| Eric R. Pianka | herpetologist |
| Katherine Oppenheimer | — |
| Gerhard Domagk | bacteriologist |
| Robert Hunter | conservationist |
| Kristian Andersen | evolutionary biologist |
| Antonie van Leeuwenhoek | microscopist |
| Adelbert von Chamisso | botanist |
| Ari Handel | neuroscientist |
| Alfred Russel Wallace | — |
| Theodore Roosevelt | conservationist |
| Katherine Puening | — |
| Konstantin Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky | — |
|
Higgs
surface form:
Dennis Higgs
|
— |
| George Bentham | botanist |
| Robert Edwards | physiologist |
| Motoo Kimura | evolutionary biologist |
| Peter R. Grant | evolutionary biologist |
| Rosemary Grant | evolutionary biologist |
| Linda Partridge | biogerontologist |
| Charles Lucien Bonaparte | zoologist |
|
Jack Colwell
surface form:
Rita R. Colwell
|
microbiologist |
| Elizabeth Roboz | neurobiologist |
| Windland Smith Rice | conservationist |
| Henry Baker | microscopist |
|
Mereschkowski
surface form:
Konstantin Mereschkowski
|
— |
| Charles Lawson | botanist |
| Jean Baer | conservationist |
| Thomas Henry Huxley | — |
| Mark Ridley | evolutionary biologist |
| Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. | conservationist |
| Ann Graybiel | neuroscientist |
|
Collège de Genève
surface form:
Augustin Pyramus de Candolle
|
botanist |
| George Edward Dobson | zoologist |
|
Lanchester
surface form:
Roderick Lanchester
|
— |
| Clinton Hart Merriam | zoologist |
| Jill P. Mesirov | computational biologist |
| Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle | botanist |
| Francis Crick | neuroscientist |
| Paul R. Ehrlich | — |
| Frank Fenner | microbiologist |
| Konstantin Sergeevich Mereschkowsky | — |
| François Magendie | physiologist |
| Charles Richet | physiologist |
| Walter Cannon | physiologist |
| George Whitmore | conservationist |