molecular biologist
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- noun
- /məˈlɛkjələr baɪˈɑlədʒɪst/
- Specialized
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biólogo molecular
- She is a molecular biologist specializing in how proteins interact within cells.
- ARS molecular biologists
- Asilomar Conference of molecular biologists
- plant molecular biologist
Understanding cognitive psychologist who have morphed into molecular biologist, studying learning and memory.
- Understanding cognitive psychologist who have morphed into molecular biologist, studying learning and memory.
- They they can't possibly tell you, nor just astronomers, nor just chemists, nor just, well, my own colleagues, molecular biologist.
Examples
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One reason was recently articulated by molecular biologist Steven Benner.
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So insists molecular biologist John Medina in Brain Rules.
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Nekhorvich was a molecular biologist.
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Such a collection might not seem special, since hundreds of molecular biologists work on D. discoideum.
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Dr. Fink is a molecular biologist at the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety.
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Arabidopsis is used as a model plant by molecular biologists because it has a small number of genes and a short life cycle.
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She is a molecular biologist and biochemist who is going to talk about forensic DNA testing.
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Beginning at Asilomar, eminent molecular biologists disagreed among themselves about the risk of the genetic engineering experiments.
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"We're particularly interested in the genes that make Campylobacter so viable and virulent," says ARS molecular biologist William G. Miller.
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Dr. Nunes is a molecular biologist at the Instituto Evandro Chagas, Ananindeua, Brazil.
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Synonyms
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A scientist who studies living things and where and how they live
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A person who studies living things and how they work
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is a straightforward modifier + head-noun combination: 'molecular' (concerning molecules) modifies 'biologist' (a scientist who studies life), so the meaning 'a scientist who studies molecules relevant to life' is directly derivable from the parts. This compositional pattern is regular in English and common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Molecular biologist combines molecular (meaning very small parts) and biologist (a scientist who studies living things). Imagine a scientist using strong tools to look at tiny 'parts of life' like 'DNA' and 'proteins', so the phrase means someone who studies those molecules.