Biology: The Logic of Life
Like Duolingo, but for Biology: The Logic of Life. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
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Key ideas in Biology: The Logic of Life
- ATP releases energy by dropping its third phosphate group to become ADP
- Enzymes lower the activation energy needed to start a chemical reaction
- The transfer of a phosphate group changes a protein's shape to do work
- The active site physically strains bonds in the substrate to make them break
- Cells regenerate ATP by adding a phosphate back to ADP using food energy
- Catalysts speed up reactions without being consumed in the process
- How ATP powers cellular work through energy transfer
- The role of enzymes in overcoming activation energy
- Substrates are modified by specific enzymes at every step of the chain
- Intermediate molecules serve as the 'output' of one step and 'input' for the next
- Metabolic pathways are often branched, diverting intermediates to different needs
- High concentrations of a product signal the cell to stop further production
- Allosteric regulation allows a product to flip an enzyme's 'off switch'
- This mechanism prevents the wasteful accumulation of unneeded amino acids
- The sequential nature of metabolic pathways
- The mechanism of feedback inhibition in resource management
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Biology: The Logic of Life the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
How do enzymes help a chemical reaction get started?
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Where Biology: The Logic of Life takes you
Move beyond memorizing parts to understanding the systems that drive all living things. Explore how energy, information, and environment interact to create the complexity of the natural world.
- 1
The Living Machine
- Powering the Cell
- Cellular Logistics and Signaling
- 2
Information and Inheritance
- The Flow of Genetic Information
- Patterns of Heredity
- The Mechanics of Evolution
- 3
Systems in Balance
- Internal Equilibrium
- Ecosystem Dynamics
3 sections · 7 units · 21 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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