Ask A Biologist is a pre-kindergarten through high school program dedicated to answering questions from students, their teachers, and parents.

The program's primary focus is to connect students and teachers with working scientists through a question-and-answer web e-mail form.

The award-winning program has been continuously running for more than 25 years, with the assistance of more than 150 volunteer scientists, faculty, and graduate students in biology and related fields.

In 2010 the program released its new website interface and features that became the subject for articles in the journals Science[1] and PLOS Biology.

Ask A Biologist was launched late in 1997 by Charles Kazilek in the School of Life Sciences, with an early version[3] viewable on the Internet Archive a.k.a.

Initially, the site consisted solely of a question submission form, a feature that remains one of its core activities.

In 2005, the website was peer-reviewed by the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT), earning a "five out of five stars" rating.

[5] Some of the guest scientists interviewed on the show included biologists and Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Edward O. Wilson and Bert Hölldobler, as well as physicist and writer Paul Davies.

In 2008, the audio podcast program introduced a co-host contest[6] that offered students in the Phoenix metro area the opportunity to meet and interview working scientists.

Body Depot is a collaborative project with the Arizona Science Center funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).