Many opportunities exist within the natural science field. Graduates may choose to begin work within their field immediately or continue their education in graduate school. Recent graduates work as teachers, chemists at Cargill, lab technicians at Heartland Lysine, and have gone into pharmacy school, dentistry and physical therapy school. These areas are expected to increase faster than the average for all occupations through the year 2005. They try to understand the co0mplex chemical combinations and reactions involved in metabolism, reproductive growth, and heredity.
Botanists study plants and their environment.
Microbiologists investigate the growth of characteristics of microscopic organisms such as bacteria, algae, or fungi. Medical microbiologists study the relationship between organisms and disease or the effect of antibiotics on microorganisms. Physiologists study life functions of plans and animals, both in the water organism and at the cellular or molecular level, under normal and abnormal conditions. Physiologists may specialize in functions such as growth, reproduction, photosynthesis, or respiratory. Some experiment with live animals in controlled or natural surroundings while others dissect dead animals to study their structure.