2131-Biologists, Botanists, Zoologists and Related Professionals

Tasks include:

• undertaking research in laboratories and in the field to increase scientific knowledge of living organisms; to discover new information; to test hypotheses
• designing and conducting experiments and tests
• gathering human, animal, insect and plant specimens and data, and studying their origin, development, chemical and physical form, structure, composition, and life and reproductive processes
• examining living organisms using a variety of specialised equipment, instruments, technologies and techniques such as electron microscopes, telemetry, global positioning systems, biotechnology, satellite imaging, genetic engineering, digital imaging analysis, polymerase chain reaction and computer modelling
• identifying, classifying, recording and monitoring living organisms and maintaining databases
• writing scientific papers and reports detailing research and any new findings which are then made available to the scientific community in scientific journals or at conferences for scrutiny and further debate