Biology Team Name Generator

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Generate biology team names for class project groups, quiz and olympiad teams, lab groups and biotech work teams, from Cell Mates and The Mighty Chondria to Taq Team, Gene Pool Party and Team Catalyst.

About biology team names

Biology gives a team more to joke with than almost any other subject, because so much of its vocabulary already sounds like teamwork: cells divide, enzymes bind, species compete and strands pair up. This list holds 1,000 names for class project groups, quiz and olympiad teams, lab groups and biochemistry or biotech work teams, all written to be read aloud in a classroom.

The names are spread across the syllabus so that every unit has something. Cell biology gives Cell Mates, The Mighty Chondria and Golgi Bodies. Genetics gives Gene Pool Party, Okazaki Fragments and The Wild Types, and biochemistry gives Induced Fit and Proton Motive Force. Bench teams get technique jokes such as Taq Team, Primer Dimers and Band Practice. Evolution, ecology, anatomy, microbiology, botany and zoology each have their own run, from Survival of the Wittiest to Quorum Sensors and Eusocial Network.

Taxonomy names follow the convention biologists use: the genus takes a capital and the species does not, as in Bison bison Bunch. There are also nods to textbook figures through their work (Darwin's Barnacles, Mendel's Garden), mascot names for competitions such as Helix Hawks, and plain names for department and company teams, such as Team Catalyst and Strand and Sequence. The puns aim to use each term the way a textbook does.

How to choose biology team names

  • Pick a pun from the unit you are studying. A genetics class will get Heterozygous Advantage or Just Our Genotype at once, while Proton Motive Force lands better after the chapter on cellular respiration.
  • Say it aloud before you commit. Cilia Later, Centromere of Attention and Krill Seekers only work when people hear the pun.
  • For several groups in one class, take a matching set from one topic, such as Prophase Pros, Metaphase Lineup, Anaphase Pullers and Telophase Finishers.
  • Work teams and department groups usually want a name that still looks right in an email signature. Team Catalyst, Bench and Field or Working Hypothesis will age better than a joke.
  • If you put a Latin name on a shirt or poster, keep the species word in lower case, as in Gulo gulo Go, and italicize the Latin if your design allows.

Frequently asked questions

What is a good name for a biology team?

A pun on a term everyone in the group knows is the safe choice: Cell Mates, Gene Pool Party, The Wild Types, Taq Team or Naturally Selected. Teams that want something plainer can use Team Genome, Root and Branch or Model Organisms.

Are these names appropriate for school?

Yes. The list was written with classroom groups and quiz teams in mind, so it leaves out innuendo, gore and jokes about illness. The humor comes from textbook terms, as in Phylum Up, Take It or Leaf It and Learning by Osmosis.

Do the names work for biochemistry and biotech teams?

Yes. One part of the list is built on enzymes, proteins and metabolism (Allosteric Regulators, Chaperone Proteins, Kinase Cascade) and another on bench work (Competent Cells, Master Mixers, Ligation Nation). Company teams that prefer no pun can look at names such as Pipeline Builders, Scale Up Squad and Lead Candidates.

Why are some names partly in lower case?

Those contain scientific names. By convention the genus starts with a capital letter and the species does not, so Panthera leo Pride and Apis mellifera Hive are written the way a biologist would write them. Panthera leo is the lion and Apis mellifera is the western honey bee.

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A: 57 names

  • A Biodiverse Bunch
  • Acer saccharum Sweethearts
  • Acetyl CoA Crew
  • Achilles Heels
  • Actin and Myosin
  • Actin Up
  • Active Site Seekers
  • Active Transport Authority
  • Ad Libitum
  • Adapt and Overcome
  • Adapted to Deadlines
  • Adaptive Radiation
  • Adenosine Try Phosphate
  • Aerobic Exercise Group
  • Agar Art Collective
  • Agar Plate Specials
  • Agarose by Any Other Name
  • Aliquot Allies
  • Alive and Respiring
  • All or None
  • Allele Alligators
  • Allele You Need
  • Allosteric Regulators
  • Alpha Helix Alliance
  • Alternation of Generations
  • Alternative Splicers
  • Alveoli Allies
  • Amino Acid Assembly

A, continued

  • Amino Acid, Am I Right
  • Amphibian Ambassadors
  • Anabolic Builders
  • Anaerobic Sprinters
  • Anaphase Pullers
  • Anatomy Aces
  • Animal Track Trackers
  • Annealing Temperature
  • Annelid Allies
  • Anning's Fossil Hunters
  • Antennae Up
  • Antiparallel Partners
  • Aorta Know Better
  • Apical Dominance
  • Apis mellifera Hive
  • Apoptosis Now
  • Arabidopsis Admirers
  • Archaea Archers
  • Archaeopteryx Flight Club
  • Aristotle's Lantern
  • Arthropod Army
  • Artificial Selection
  • Aseptic Technique
  • Assay Aces
  • ATP Party People
  • Autoclave Authority
  • Auxin Action
  • Axolotl Questions
  • Axon Aces

B: 57 names

  • Bacterial Lawn Care
  • Balance the Centrifuge
  • Baleen Filterers
  • Band Practice
  • Barely Bipedal
  • Barnacle Bunch
  • Batesian Mimics
  • Be-Leaf in Us
  • Beagle Voyagers
  • Beaker Brigade
  • Bench and Field
  • Benchwork Collective
  • Benthic Dwellers
  • Bergmann's Rule
  • Berlese Funnel Fans
  • Beta Sheet Shakers
  • Binary Fission Mission
  • Binocular Vision
  • Binomial Nomenclature
  • Bio Block Party
  • Bio Bowl Bosses
  • Bio Luminaries
  • Bio Means Life
  • Bio Nerds United
  • Bioblitz Brigade
  • Biodiversity Hotspot
  • Biofilm Festival
  • Biological Replicates

B, continued

  • Biology Bowl Bound
  • Biology Brainiacs
  • Biology Buffs
  • Bioluminescent Bay
  • Biome Bears
  • Bioreactor Crew
  • Biorhythm and Blues
  • Biosafety Cabinet Members
  • Biotic Factors
  • Bird Banders
  • Birds of a Feather
  • Bison bison Bunch
  • Bivalve Believers
  • Blank the Spec
  • Blue Blooded Horseshoe Crabs
  • Blue Genes Crew
  • Blue White Screeners
  • Blue-Green Machine
  • Blunt Ends
  • Bonded for Life Science
  • Bottleneck Survivors
  • Branching Out
  • Broca's Area
  • Bryophyte Brigade
  • Bubo bubo Owls
  • Budding Yeast
  • Buffer Zone
  • Bufo bufo Hoppers
  • Butterfly Counters

C: 104 names

  • Caenorhabditis Elegance
  • Cajal's Neurons
  • Cajal's Sketchbook
  • Calvin Cycle Riders
  • Camera Trap Crew
  • Camouflage Crew
  • Canis lupus Crew
  • Canopy Climbers
  • Canopy Collective
  • Canopy Cover
  • Canopy Jaguars
  • Capillary Action
  • Capital Genus, Lowercase Species
  • Carbon Based Lifeforms
  • Carbon Cyclists
  • Carbon Fixers
  • Carbon Sink
  • Carbon Skeleton Crew
  • Carpal Diem
  • Carrying Capacity
  • Casparian Strip
  • Catabolic Converters
  • Catalyst Crew
  • Cell Mates
  • Cell Out Crowd
  • Cell Wall Street
  • Cell-ebration Station
  • Central Dogma
  • Centriole Centurions
  • Centromere of Attention
  • Cephalopod Squad
  • Cerebellum Balance
  • Cerebral Cortex Vortex
  • Chameleon Colors

C, continued

  • Chance Favors the Prepared
  • Chanterelle Choir
  • Chaperone Proteins
  • Chargaff's Rules
  • Charged Up on ATP
  • Checkpoint Passed
  • Cheese Cultures
  • Chemiosmosis Champs
  • Chemotaxis Chasers
  • Chlorophyll Champions
  • Chlorophyll in the Blanks
  • Chordate Chorus
  • Chromosome Chargers
  • Chrysalis Crew
  • Cilia Later
  • Circadian Rhythm Section
  • Citizen Science Crew
  • Citric Acid Circle
  • Clade Crushers
  • Cladistics Club
  • Cladogram Climbers
  • Class Act
  • Class Mammalia
  • Clavicle Club
  • Cleaner Wrasse Station
  • Clone Rangers
  • Clownfish and Anemone
  • Cnidarian Stingers
  • Co-Dominators
  • Cocci and Bacilli
  • Cochlea Crew
  • Codon Cobras
  • Coelacanth Comeback
  • Coevolution Coalition
  • Cofactor Collective

C, continued

  • Cohort One
  • Cold Room Crew
  • Colony Forming Units
  • Colony Pickers
  • Comb Jellies
  • Commensal Companions
  • Common Ancestors
  • Common Descent
  • Competent Cells
  • Competitive Exclusion
  • Competitive Inhibitors
  • Complete Metamorphosis
  • Complex Organisms
  • Conifer Crew
  • Connective Tissue
  • Contig Builders
  • Convergent Evolution
  • Copepod Squad
  • Coral Reef Builders
  • Corpus Callosum Connection
  • Corresponding Authors
  • Cotyledon Club
  • Covalently Bonded
  • Creek Walkers
  • Crepuscular Crew
  • Cristae Clear
  • Cross Pollinators
  • Crossing Over
  • Cultured Individuals
  • Cuttlefish Camouflage
  • Cuvier's Comparative Anatomists
  • Cytokinesis Split
  • Cytoplasm Cyclones
  • Cytoplasm Streamers
  • Cytoskeleton Crew

D: 34 names

  • Danio rerio Racers
  • Darwin's Barnacles
  • Darwin's Earthworms
  • Darwin's Notebooks
  • Darwin's Orchids
  • Dawn Chorus
  • De Novo
  • Deciduous Decisions
  • Deep Hibernators
  • Deep Roots
  • Deep Time Travelers
  • Dehydration Synthesis
  • Delft Lens Grinders
  • Deltoid Force
  • Denature, Anneal, Extend
  • Denatured and Confused
  • Dendrite Delight
  • Dendrite Dragons
  • Depth of Field Trip
  • Descent with Modification
  • Designer Genes
  • Diatom Designers
  • Dichotomous Keys
  • Diffusion of Responsibility
  • Dihybrid Crossers
  • Dip Net Crew
  • Disorganized Organisms
  • Disulfide Bridges
  • Dividing and Conquering
  • DNA: Do Not Ask
  • Domain Names
  • Doubling Time
  • Down House Naturalists
  • Drosophila Fly Room

E: 26 names

  • Echinoderm Stars
  • Ecology Eagles
  • Ectotherm Energy
  • Edge Effect
  • Eight Arms, Three Hearts
  • Electron Transport Chain Gang
  • Elton's Pyramid
  • Elution Solution
  • Emergent Properties
  • Endless Forms Most Beautiful
  • Endoplasmic Ridiculum
  • Endospore Endurance
  • Energy Pyramid Scheme
  • Enzyme Eagles
  • Enzyme Kinetics Crew
  • Epigenetic Marks
  • Essential Amino Acids
  • Estuary Explorers
  • Estuary Ospreys
  • Et Al.
  • Euglena Eyespots
  • Eukaryote Elite
  • Eusocial Network
  • Evolutionary Advantage
  • Evolutionary Arms Race
  • Exoskeleton Crew

F: 47 names

  • Facilitated Diffusers
  • Facultative Anaerobes
  • Family Matters
  • Fast Twitch Fibers
  • Feedback Inhibition
  • Felis catus Fan Club
  • Fermentation Station
  • Fibula Fibbers
  • Fiddleheads
  • Fiddler Crabs
  • Field and Flask
  • Field Botanists
  • Field Guide Guides
  • Field Notebook Keepers
  • Field Season
  • Field Station Regulars
  • Field Trip Flock
  • Fight or Flight
  • Figure One
  • Filter Feeders
  • Firefly Flash Mob
  • First Stop, Second Stop
  • Fitness Landscape

F, continued

  • Five Prime to Three Prime
  • Fixed Action Patterns
  • Flagella Fellas
  • Flagella Flyers
  • Flagellar Motors
  • Flame the Loop
  • Flashcard Phenotypes
  • Flask Force
  • Fluid Mosaic Models
  • Fogged Goggles
  • Food Web Weavers
  • For the Love of Life Science
  • Forward and Reverse Primers
  • Fossil Record Breakers
  • Founder Effect
  • Four Chambered Stomach
  • Frameshift Happens
  • Free Ribosomes
  • Friday Seminar Crew
  • Friend or Anemone
  • Frog Call Counters
  • Fruit Fly Guys
  • Fruiting Bodies
  • Fully Functional Organisms

G: 36 names

  • Galapagos Tortoises
  • Gap Junction Gang
  • Gause's Paramecia
  • Gecko Grip
  • Gene Flow
  • Gene Genies
  • Gene Pool Party
  • Genetic Drifters
  • Genius Genus
  • Genome Giants
  • Genotype Jaguars
  • Germination Nation
  • Get a Life Science
  • Gibberellin Giants
  • Gloves and Goggles
  • Glowing Green Proteins
  • Glucose Gladiators
  • Glycogen Reserves
  • Goggle Gang
  • Golgi Bodies
  • Golgi's Silver Stain
  • Graduated Cylinders
  • Gram Positive Attitude
  • Grana Stand
  • Grant Deadline Survivors
  • Gray Matter Gang
  • Grazers and Browsers
  • Greenhouse Crew
  • Growth Chamber Crew
  • Growth Factor
  • Growth Medium
  • Growth Rings
  • Guard Cells
  • Guide RNA Guides
  • Gulo gulo Go
  • Gut Flora

H: 41 names

  • Habitat Heroes
  • Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
  • Harvey's Circulation
  • Haversian Canals
  • Hay Infusion
  • Heat Shock Troops
  • Helicase Unzipped
  • Helix Hawks
  • Hemoglobin Goblins
  • Henle's Loop Troop
  • Herbarium Crew
  • Hermit Crab Housing
  • Heterozygous Advantage
  • High Five Phalanges
  • High Throughput
  • Highly Evolved
  • Hippocampus Campus
  • Histone Wrappers
  • Hive Mind
  • Hollow Bones

H, continued

  • Holotype Heroes
  • Home Sweet Homeostasis
  • Homeostasis Heroes
  • Homologous Pairs
  • Homologous Structures
  • Homozygous Dominant
  • Honors Bio Heroes
  • Hooke's Cork Cells
  • Hot Spring Thermophiles
  • Hox Genes
  • Humboldt's Naturalists
  • Humpback Chorus
  • Hungry Heterotrophs
  • Hydrogen Bonded
  • Hydrolysis Heroes
  • Hydrophilic Heads
  • Hydrophobic Core
  • Hydrothermal Vent Dwellers
  • Hyphae High Five
  • Hypothesis Testers
  • Hypotonic and Swelling

I: 24 names

  • In Silico
  • In Situ
  • In the Light of Evolution
  • In the Major Groove
  • In Vitro
  • In Vivo
  • Incertae Sedis
  • Incomplete Dominance
  • Inconclusive Results
  • Independent Assortment
  • Indicator Species
  • Induced Fit
  • Inoculating Loop
  • Instar Stars
  • Interphase Interns
  • Intertidal Zone
  • Introns Out, Exons In
  • Invertebrate Majority
  • Ion Channel Surfers
  • Islets of Langerhans
  • Isotonic Balance
  • It Worked Last Time
  • It's in Our DNA
  • Italicize It

J: 3 names

  • Journal Club Regulars
  • Jumping Genes
  • Just Our Genotype

K: 15 names

  • K Strategists
  • Karyotype Casting Call
  • Keep It on Ice
  • Kelp Forest Otters
  • Kelp Forest Rangers
  • Key to the Species
  • Kick Net Crew
  • Kimchi Fermenters
  • Kin Selection
  • Kinase Cascade
  • Kinetochore Corps
  • King Philip's Crew
  • Kingdom Animalia
  • Kingdom Come
  • Krill Seekers

L: 52 names

  • Lab Meeting Legends
  • Lab Safety First
  • Label Your Tubes
  • Lac Operon Operators
  • Lactobacillus Legion
  • Ladder Climbers
  • Lag Phase Loungers
  • Lanternfish Lights
  • Larva Lamp
  • Late Bloomers
  • Law of Segregation
  • Lead Candidates
  • Leading Strand
  • Leaf and Lens
  • Leaf Litter Critters
  • Leaf Press Crew
  • Leafcutter Ants
  • Leaning Toward the Light
  • Learning by Osmosis
  • Leeuwenhoek's Animalcules
  • Leeuwenhoek's Lenses
  • Left Ventricle Leaders
  • Leucine Zippers
  • Lichen It a Lot
  • Lichen Subscribe
  • Life in a Drop

L, continued

  • Life Science Collective
  • Ligaments and Tendons
  • Ligation Nation
  • Limiting Factors
  • Limpet Grip
  • Lineage Collective
  • Linked Genes
  • Linnaeus's Flower Clock
  • Linnaeus's Legacy
  • Lipid Lions
  • Lipid Rafters
  • Liver and Let Liver
  • Living Fossils
  • Living Proof
  • Loading Dye Job
  • Lock and Key Club
  • Lotka and Volterra
  • Low Tide Explorers
  • Lowering Activation Energy
  • LUCA's Descendants
  • Lumen Beings
  • Lumpers and Splitters
  • Lynx and Hare
  • Lynx lynx Links
  • Lysosome Cleanup Crew
  • Lysosome Lynx

M: 70 names

  • MacArthur's Warblers
  • Macroinvertebrate Hunters
  • Magnified a Thousand Times
  • Malpighian Tubules
  • Manatee Mosey
  • Mangrove Roots
  • Manta Ray Gliders
  • Mantis Shrimp Punch
  • Mark and Recapture
  • Marrow Minded
  • Mass Spectacular
  • Master Mixers
  • Materials and Methods
  • Maximum Velocity
  • Mayfly Counters
  • McClintock's Maize
  • Medulla Oblongata Regatta
  • Membrane Bound
  • Membrane Mavericks
  • Membrane Potential
  • Mendel's Garden
  • Mendelian Ratios
  • Meniscus Readers
  • Merian's Metamorphosis
  • Messenger RNA Service
  • Metabolic Pathfinders
  • Metaphase Lineup
  • Michaelis and Menten
  • Michaelis Constant Companions
  • Microbiome Managers
  • Micrographia Readers
  • Microscope Masters
  • Microscopic Giants
  • Microscopy Mondays
  • Microtubule Movers

M, continued

  • Miescher's Nuclein
  • Migration Patterns
  • Migratory Flock
  • Mind Over Gray Matter
  • Miniprep Militia
  • Minus Eighty Club
  • Mist Net Crew
  • Mitochondrial Mayhem
  • Mitosis Mustangs
  • Mixed Species Flock
  • Model Organisms
  • Molecular Clock Watchers
  • Mollusk Hustle
  • Molting Season
  • Monarch Migration
  • Monocots and Dicots
  • Monophyletic Group
  • Monotreme Dream
  • Moon Jellies
  • Morel Compass
  • Morel Support
  • Morgan's Fruit Flies
  • Moss Bosses
  • Most Recent Common Ancestor
  • Mostly Water
  • Moth Night Crew
  • Muddy Boots
  • Mudflat Diggers
  • Multicellular and Proud
  • Murmuration
  • Mus musculus Muscle
  • Mutually Beneficial
  • Mycelium Network
  • Mycorrhizal Partners
  • Myelin Sheath Speedsters

N: 30 names

  • N Equals Three
  • NADH Shuttle
  • Narwhal Tusk Force
  • Naturally Curious
  • Naturally Selected
  • Nectar Collectors
  • Negative Controls
  • Negative Delta G
  • Negative Feedback Loop
  • Nephron Network
  • Net Primary Productivity
  • Neuron Ninjas
  • Next Gen Sequencers
  • Niche Differentiation
  • Niche Partitioners
  • Night Hike Naturalists
  • Night Shift CAM Plants
  • Nine Three Three One
  • No Cell Service
  • Nobody but Antibody
  • Nodes and Branches
  • Nodes of Ranvier
  • Nomenclature Nerds
  • Notochord Notes
  • Nuclear Envelope Pushers
  • Nuclear Pore Complex
  • Nucleus Knights
  • Nudibranch Fan Club
  • Nutrient Broth Brothers
  • Nutrient Cyclers

O: 30 names

  • Obligate Carnivores
  • Observe and Record
  • Okazaki Fragments
  • Old Field Succession
  • Old Growth
  • Old School of Fish
  • Olfactory Factory
  • Olympiad Organisms
  • Omnis Cellula e Cellula
  • On the Origin of Teams
  • One Gene, One Enzyme
  • Open Reading Frame
  • Opportunistic Omnivores
  • Optical Density Readers
  • Optimal pH
  • Orb Weavers
  • Order in the Class
  • Organ Recital
  • Organelle Orchestra
  • Organelle Outlaws
  • Organelle Overachievers
  • Organic Growth
  • Organic Matter Matters
  • Organized Organisms
  • Origin of Species Fan Club
  • Osmosis Otters
  • Out of Order
  • Overnight Incubation
  • Owl Pellet Detectives
  • Oxidative Phosphorylators

P: 73 names

  • Pair-a-mecium
  • Panthera leo Pride
  • Panthera tigris Stripes
  • Passive Transporters
  • Pavlov's Conditioned Reflexes
  • Pelagic Drifters
  • Pellet Patrol
  • Peppered Moths
  • Peptide Bond Builders
  • Peregrine Dive
  • Perennial Favorites
  • Period Three Bio
  • Peristalsis Wave
  • Peroxisome Posse
  • Petal Pushers
  • Petri Dish It Out
  • Phenotype Casting
  • Phenotype Phoenix
  • Phloem Flow
  • Phosphate Group Chat
  • Phospholipid Bilayer Cake
  • Photo 51
  • Phylogenetic Tree Huggers
  • Phylum Up
  • Pica pica Pickers
  • Picky Herbivores
  • Pilot Study
  • Pioneer Species
  • Pipeline Builders
  • Pistol Shrimp Snap
  • Pitfall Trappers
  • Planaria Regenerators
  • Plankton Bloom
  • Plankton Tow
  • Plasmid Pals
  • Plasmid Panthers

P, continued

  • Platypus Paradox
  • Pluripotent Potential
  • Pod of Orcas
  • Point Mutations
  • Pollen Count
  • Pollinator Patrol
  • Polysaccharide Party
  • Pond Dippers
  • Pond Water Explorers
  • Population Dynamics
  • Porifera Posse
  • Poster Session Pros
  • Powered by Photosynthesis
  • Prairie Bison
  • Predator Prey Cycle
  • Preliminary Data
  • Priestley's Mint Sprig
  • Primary Producers
  • Primary Succession
  • Primer Dimers
  • Primordial Soup Stirrers
  • Pro Team Proteins
  • Prokaryote Pros
  • Promoter Region
  • Properly Folded
  • Prophase Pros
  • Protist Protest
  • Proton Motive Force
  • Pseudopod Posse
  • Puffballs
  • Punctuated Equilibrium
  • Punnett's Grid
  • Pupa Troopers
  • Pure Culture
  • Purines and Pyrimidines
  • Purkinje Fibers
  • Pyruvate Pirates

Q: 5 names

  • Quadrat Squad
  • Quaternary Structure Quartet
  • Quercus alba Oaks
  • Question Everything
  • Quorum Sensors

R: 33 names

  • Radial Symmetry
  • Rain or Shine Samplers
  • Rainforest Canopy Crew
  • Random Mutation Generation
  • Rank and File
  • Raptor Researchers
  • Realized Niche
  • Receptor Mediated
  • Red Queen Runners
  • Redi's Jars
  • Redox Reactors
  • Reef Sharks
  • Reference Genome
  • Remora Riders
  • Repeat the Experiment
  • Replication Fork
  • Rest and Digest
  • Resting Potential
  • Restriction Digesters
  • Results and Discussion
  • Rhizobium Root Crew
  • Rib Cage Match
  • Ribosome Raiders
  • Riparian Rangers
  • Rods and Cones
  • Root and Branch
  • Root Hairs
  • Roots Down, Shoots Up
  • Rough ER Riders
  • Round and Wrinkled
  • Rubisco Fan Club
  • Ruminant Thinkers
  • Run to Red

S: 92 names

  • S Phase Synthesizers
  • Safranin Pink
  • Salmon Run
  • Salt Marsh Crew
  • Saltatory Conductors
  • Sarcomere Shorteners
  • Sargassum Drifters
  • Saturated with Knowledge
  • Savanna Lions
  • Savanna Stampede
  • Scale Up Squad
  • Scavenger Hunt Scavengers
  • Schleiden and Schwann
  • Schwann Cells
  • Sea Otter Raft
  • Sea Slug Squad
  • Sea Turtle Navigators
  • Seahorse Herd
  • Secchi Depth
  • Second Messengers
  • Seed and Stem
  • Seed Bank
  • Seed Dispersers
  • Segmented and Proud
  • Selective Pressure
  • Selectively Permeable
  • Semicircular Canals
  • Send in the Clones
  • Sequence Aligners
  • Serial Diluters

S, continued

  • Shared Derived Traits
  • Shark Tagging Crew
  • Signal and Response
  • Signal Transducers
  • Significant Others
  • Silent Mutations
  • Silent Spring Readers
  • Sister Chromatids
  • Sister Taxa
  • Slide and Coverslip
  • Sliding Filaments
  • Slightly Agar-vated
  • Slime Mold Solvers
  • Slow Twitch and Steady
  • Small but Mighty Microbes
  • Smear Campaign
  • Smooth ER Operators
  • Sodium Potassium Pumped
  • Soil Core Samplers
  • Sourdough Starters
  • Southern Blot Society
  • Sp. Nov. Squad
  • Speciation Station
  • Spider Silk Spinners
  • Spin Column Spinners
  • Spinal Chords
  • Spindle Fibers
  • Spindle Spartans
  • Spirilla Thrillers
  • Spore Print
  • Squid Giant Axons

S, continued

  • Squid Squad
  • Stabilizing Selection
  • Standard Curve
  • Start Codons
  • Starter Culture
  • Sticky Ends
  • Still Evolving
  • Stir Bar Stars
  • Stomata Stingers
  • Stop Codon Stoppers
  • Strand and Sequence
  • Streak for Isolation
  • Stream Team
  • Structure and Function
  • Study Group Symbionts
  • Subspecies Subcommittee
  • Sui Generis
  • Sunlight Powered
  • Supercoiled
  • Supernatant Superstars
  • Surface Area to Volume
  • Survival of the Wittiest
  • Sustainable Yield
  • Sutton and Boveri
  • Swan Neck Flasks
  • Swim Bladder Buoyancy
  • Symbiotic Relationship
  • Symbiotic Study Group
  • Synapse Storm
  • Synaptic Cleft Jumpers
  • Systema Naturae Readers

T: 116 names

  • Tadpoles to Frogs
  • Taiga Tigers
  • Take It or Leaf It
  • Taking a Cellfie
  • Tansley's Ecosystem
  • Taproot Team
  • Taq Team
  • Tardigrade Tough
  • Tare It Up
  • Taste Buds
  • TATA Box Office
  • Taxon Titans
  • Team Canopy
  • Team Catalyst
  • Team Darwin
  • Team Genome
  • Team Gorilla gorilla
  • Team Linnaeus
  • Team Mendel
  • Team Meristem
  • Team Pasteur
  • Team PMAT
  • Team Symbiosis
  • Team Wallace
  • Technical Replicates
  • Telomere Tips
  • Telophase Finishers
  • Ten Percent Rule
  • Tertiary Structure
  • Test Cross Champions
  • Test Tube Titans
  • Tetrapod Squad
  • The Annotators
  • The Autotrophs
  • The Bio Majors
  • The Biodegradables
  • The Biologists
  • The Bohr Effect

T, continued

  • The Clade
  • The Detritivores
  • The Echolocators
  • The Endosymbionts
  • The Ethologists
  • The Evergreens
  • The Fermenters
  • The Final Electron Acceptors
  • The Fun Guys
  • The Gene-iuses
  • The Gradualists
  • The Gram Stainers
  • The Holoenzymes
  • The Knockouts
  • The Lagging Strands
  • The Light Reactions
  • The Mighty Chondria
  • The Mutualists
  • The Naturalists
  • The Neurotransmitters
  • The Outgroup
  • The Plasma Membranes
  • The Polymers
  • The Pro Teens
  • The Rewilders
  • The Seedlings
  • The Species Problem
  • The Spliceosomes
  • The Tangled Bank
  • The Taproots
  • The Tautonyms
  • The Thermoregulators
  • The Tidepoolers
  • The Troubleshooters
  • The Villi People
  • The Wild Types
  • The You-Karyotes
  • Thermal Cyclers
  • Third Floor Biologists

T, continued

  • Thirty Cycles Later
  • Thirty Seven Degrees
  • Three Domains
  • Three to One Ratio
  • Three Toed Sloths
  • Threshold Reached
  • Thriving in Our Niche
  • Thylakoid Stack
  • Thyme for Thymine
  • Thymine to Shine
  • Tidal Volume
  • Tide Pool Explorers
  • Tide Pool Stars
  • Tight Junctions
  • Tiktaalik Walkers
  • Tissue Issues
  • Top of the Food Chain
  • Topoisomerase Twisters
  • Totally Totipotent
  • Transcription Factors
  • Transect Walkers
  • Transfer RNA Taxi
  • Transformation Station
  • Transitional Forms
  • Transpiration Pull
  • Tree of Life Climbers
  • Tree Ring Counters
  • Trial and Error Bars
  • Trilobite Tribe
  • Trophic Cascade
  • Trophic Level Up
  • Truffle Hunters
  • Tube Worm Towers
  • Tundra Trekkers
  • Tundra Wolves
  • Turgor Pressure
  • Turning Over a New Leaf
  • Tursiops truncatus Pod
  • Two Name Minimum

U: 8 names

  • Umbrella Species
  • Unbe-leaf-able
  • Understory Underdogs
  • Unsaturated Thinkers
  • Up the Concentration Gradient
  • Upstream and Downstream
  • Uracil Understudies
  • Ursus arctos Bear Bears

V: 14 names

  • Vacuole Vikings
  • Van Helmont's Willow
  • Variant Callers
  • Vascular Bundles
  • Vena Cava Crew
  • Venus Flytraps
  • Vertebrate Vanguard
  • Vesalius's Atlas
  • Vesicle Delivery Service
  • Vestigial Structures
  • Vital Capacity
  • Volvox Colony
  • Voyage of the Beagle
  • Vulpes vulpes Den

W: 20 names

  • Waggle Dancers
  • Wallace Line Crossers
  • Wallace's Flying Frogs
  • Warm Blooded and Well Read
  • Warm Blooded Endotherms
  • Watershed Moment
  • Weigh Boat Captains
  • Western Blotters
  • Wet Bench Warmers
  • Wet Mount Rushmore
  • Wetland Herons
  • Wetland Waders
  • Who Moved My Pipette
  • Wildlife Corridor
  • Winogradsky Columns
  • Wobble Position
  • Wood Wide Web
  • Worker Bees
  • Working Hypothesis
  • Worth Our Salt Halophiles

X: 3 names

  • Xenopus Hoppers
  • Xylem and Phloem
  • Xylem Up

Y: 4 names

  • Yeast Mode
  • Yeast of Our Worries
  • Yogurt Cultures
  • Your Epidermis Is Showing

Z: 6 names

  • Zinc Fingers
  • Zone of Inhibition
  • Zooplankton Drifters
  • Zooxanthellae Tenants
  • Zwitterion Zone
  • Zygote Zebras