Other biologists are learning how to construct small genetic circuits.
Human biologists could learn about extraterrestrial biochemistry and observe how it differs from that found on Earth.
Beginning in the 1980s, biologists have learned that many mammals and birds need to learn a lot to survive in the wild.
The business of generating new cells is left largely to the stem cells, which biologists have only recently learned to distinguish from ordinary cells.
Researchers say these master genes are likely to help biologists learn more about the many cues that go into determining whether and when a plant flowers.
But biologists and gardeners have learned that if deer are hungry enough they will eat any plant.
Whatever else biologists may learn about redwoods, the most stunning thing about them remains their sheer, jaw-dropping size.
In 2008, biologists learned sand dollar larvae clone themselves as a mechanism of self-defense.
A biologist can study oak trees and learn about oakness and more generally the intelligible order within the sensible world.
As developmental biologists are learning, genes and tissues engage in astonishing calls and responses during fetal growth.