Welcome to the Biology Tips Daily - Learning never been easier if you know how.
To continue yesterday's tip, today's topic is about "See the Big Picture", the effective way to sort out the details.
Before you are overwhelmed by the myriad detail and the arcane terminology of a complicated, multi-step biological process, SEE THE BIG PICTURE. First ask why, then ask who-what-where-when (whichever is appropriate) and, only after you have answered these questions, ask how. The "how" question is about the details. Do not jump into the details without answering why and who-what-where-when.
The first time you confront the subject of cellular respiration, Your reaction would be something like this ...
(Heart sinking in chest) "Gasp...are they nuts?...they expect me to understand this mish-mash of diagrams, tables, dozens of chemical reactions, lots of new terms, and cell structures? Get real."
"Sigh...maybe I should be an art history major."
To avoid changing your major, to relieve anxiety, and to minimize the confusion usually associated with learning this three part process - each process containing sub-processes, each sub-process involving lots of complicated chemical reactions as steps, each step for a different reason, the processes taking place in different parts of the cell, and so on.
First ask "why": What's the point of all this stuff? The point of all this biology is to produce chemical energy in the form of a molecule called ATP. ATP drives an awful lot of the cell's chemical reactions. That's it. All this complex cellular machinery and all these chemical reactions are to produce ATP.
Now you can ask "Where" these processes take place, "what" is the point of each process, and identify the molecules that enter each process and the molecules produced by each process. You are establishing the biological logic to which the details will contribute.
Having established the biological logic of each process, then you can begin to ask the "how". Now that we have the logic, we are ready for the details, and the details are much more likely to make sense now (and easier to commit to memory).
If you attempt to try to learn about cellular respiration by starting with the particulars, the details, you are doomed to anxiety, confusion, and probably failure. Think like a biologist - SEE THE BIG PICTURE first, then figure out how the details contribute to THE BIG PICTURE.
A bit long for today, well, hope you GET IT.
Until then, stay tuned for more biology tips.
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Dr. Wayne Huang
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