MOLECULAR BIOLOGIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does molecular biologist mean? 

• MOLECULAR BIOLOGIST (noun)
  The noun MOLECULAR BIOLOGIST has 1 sense:

1. a biologist who studies the structure and activity of macromolecules essential to life

  Familiarity information: MOLECULAR BIOLOGIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOLECULAR BIOLOGIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A biologist who studies the structure and activity of macromolecules essential to life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("molecular biologist" is a kind of...):

biologist; life scientist ((biology) a scientist who studies living organisms)

Instance hyponyms:

Leo Szilard; Szilard (United States physicist and molecular biologist who helped develop the first atom bomb and later opposed the use of all nuclear weapons (1898-1964))

Tonegawa Susumu (Japanese molecular biologist noted for his studies of how the immune system produces antibodies (born in 1939))

 Context examples 

No two were exactly the same, explained molecular biologist Danielle G. Lemay at the ARS Western Human Nutrition Research Center in Davis, California.

(Humans More Unique than Expected When It Comes to Digesting Fatty Meals, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

Researchers used a method of identifying resistance genes that could be used broadly, according to the team's leader, Mark Guiltinan, a plant molecular biologist at Penn State.

(New way to identify disease-resistant genes in chocolate-producing trees, National Science Foundation)

Led by molecular biologist Chao-Qiang Lai from Agricultural Research Service’s (ARS) Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory at Tufts University, Boston, the study found the same epigenetic mark also is likely associated with greater appetite, and this can result in greater food consumption and a higher BMI.

(International Research Team Finds Correlation Between Genetics and Obesity Is Modified by Diet, U.S. Department of Agriculture)