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 |
|---|---|
| Rachel Carson | marine biologist |
| Donald Brownlee | astrobiologist |
| Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti | zoologist |
| William D. Hamilton | evolutionary biologist |
| Sir Richard Strachey | botanist |
|
Lindauer
surface form:
Martin Lindauer
|
ethologist |
| John Muir | conservationist |
| John Maynard Smith | evolutionary biologist |
| Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran | parasitologist |
|
Cuvier
surface form:
Georges Cuvier
|
zoologist |
| Buffon | — |
| Sean B. Carroll | evolutionary biologist |
| Frans de Waal | primatologist |
|
Carrel
surface form:
Alexis Carrel
|
— |
| sociobiology | subfield of behavioral ecology |
| Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov | zoologist |
| Luther Burbank | botanist |
| Lynn Margulis | — |
| Nathaniel Wallich | botanist |
| George C. Williams | evolutionary biologist |
| Ferdinand von Mueller | botanist |
| William Guilfoyle | botanist |
| Cason J. Callaway | conservationist |
| Hermann von Helmholtz | physiologist |
| Leo Carrillo | conservationist |
| Nancy Gore Hunger | conservationist |
| Nicholas Hughes | fisheries biologist |
| Miriam Rothschild | conservationist |
| A. V. Hill | physiologist |
| Robert Barnhill Roosevelt | conservationist |
| Henry Clifton Sorby | microscopist |
| Émile Roux | bacteriologist |
| Carl Gustaf Bernhard | neuroscientist |
| Aristotle | — |
| Sydney Brenner | — |
| Emil du Bois-Reymond | physiologist |
| Edward Drinker Cope | zoologist |
|
Brock
surface form:
Thomas D. Brock
|
microbiologist |
| Christian Steven | botanist |
|
Hensl.
surface form:
John Stevens Henslow
|
botanist |
|
Bert
surface form:
Bert Hölldobler
|
— |
| Dongjin Seo | neuroscientist |
|
Jean
surface form:
Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier
|
zoologist |
| Roberto Burle Marx | botanist |
| Johann Friedrich Gmelin | taxonomist |
| Oldfield Thomas | zoologist |
| Peter Ward | astrobiologist |
| Leonard Jenyns | zoologist |
| Tim Smit | conservationist |
| Guy Mountfort | conservationist |