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Learn biology by taking the system apart

Biology asks you to hold a great deal in your head and to understand how several moving systems fit together. Those need different treatment: the systems are worth interacting with until the shape of them is obvious, and the facts are worth scheduling so they come back before you lose them. A plan here does both rather than treating everything as reading.

The circulatory loop, running whether you watch it or not. Click any stage.

Labelled diagram · circulationSIX STAGES
Body tissuesRARVLungsLALV

Blue is blood that has given up its oxygen, red is blood that has just collected some. Click any stage to read what happens there.

Click a stage on the diagram.
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What people come here to do

You describe the goal in your own words and it asks questions back until the plan is one you would actually follow. These are the shapes that goal usually takes.

  • Get through an anatomy and physiology module
  • Revise for a biology paper without re-reading the textbook
  • Keep the pathways straight for a nursing or medical course
  • Actually remember the cycles rather than recognising them

What a biology plan covers

Not a fixed syllabus — the plan is built around your goal and cuts what does not serve it. These are the topics it draws from, and whatever you get wrong comes back until it stops coming back.

Circulation, gas exchange and the heart
Cells, membranes and transport
Respiration and photosynthesis
Genetics, inheritance and DNA
Homeostasis and feedback loops
Ecology, evolution and selection

Other subjects

The mechanics are the same whatever the subject — a slider is a slider whether it is moving a coefficient or a rate of return. What changes is what it is a slider for.

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