The interesting thing is that knowing these facts has no correlation with whether you are a good biologist.
Real biology involves designing clever wet lab experiments, analysing data to predict new phenomenon, then following up with more experiments.
Nothing in real life biology relies on knowing a huge amount of facts. You just look it up on google.
What makes biology hard to teach is that there are no principles. So teacher can just point to experimental results and ask students to memorise those results. Real biology is about saying the textbooks are all wrong and here is how it really works.
Real biology involves designing clever wet lab experiments, analysing data to predict new phenomenon, then following up with more experiments.
Nothing in real life biology relies on knowing a huge amount of facts. You just look it up on google.
What makes biology hard to teach is that there are no principles. So teacher can just point to experimental results and ask students to memorise those results. Real biology is about saying the textbooks are all wrong and here is how it really works.