biology technician
Biology technicians provide technical assistance in researching and analysing the relationship between living organisms and their environment. They use laboratory equipment to examine organic substances such as bodily fluids, medicines, plants and food. They collect and analyse data for experiments, compile reports and maintain laboratory stock.
Also called: biology laboratory technician, wildlife laboratory technician, marine biologist, life sciences technician, animal biologist, biology lab technician, marine biology technician, animal laboratory technician
- 22
- essential skills
- 29
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
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Essential skills
22- analyse experimental laboratory data
- apply safety procedures in laboratory
- apply scientific methods
- assist in the production of laboratory documentation
- biology
- calibrate laboratory equipment
- collect biological data
- collect samples for analysis
- computational biology
- cryopreservation
- laboratory equipment
- laboratory techniques
- life sciences
- maintain laboratory equipment
- manage inventory
- perform laboratory tests
- perform scientific research
- perform stem cell transplantation
- scientific research methodology
- stem cells
- use laboratory equipment
- write technical reports
Optional skills
29- analyse blood samples
- analyse cell cultures
- animal welfare legislation
- applied zoology
- biosecurity
- botany
- chemistry
- collect reproductive cells
- ecology
- environmental legislation
- evolutionary biology
- genomics
- hazardous waste storage
- keep task records
- label samples
- maintain freelance database
- microbiology-bacteriology
- molecular biology
- monitor the welfare of animals
- oceanography
- pathology
- perform fertility laboratory procedures
- perform field research
- pharmacology
- pollution prevention
- prepare visual data
- preserve samples
- virology
- write research proposals
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