For the survival and propagation purpose, creatures including microorganisms, animals and plants have developed multiple, multimorphology, multidimensional and multiscale fine micronano structures as the result of evolutionary selection for billions of years, and thus provide abundant inspirations for scientific research in many fields. Morphology genetic method has been recently adopted to effectively prepare materials with biological structures by changing the compositions of biological templates to desired materials while keeping the structures of the templates. In this paper, we introduce the method to prepare functional materials with biological structure by using morphology genetic principles, list several kinds of the morphology genetic materials prepared by using several typical biological structures as templates and discuss the functional performance of materials with different structural characteristics.