Biology in Your Daily Life
Like Duolingo, but for Biology in Your Daily 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.
A short one: 12 levels across 2 sections, about 24 minutes end to end, roughly 5 days at five minutes a day. It moves through The Machinery of You and The Blueprint and the World. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Biology in Your Daily Life
- Food contains energy locked in chemical bonds
- The body cannot use complex food molecules directly for movement
- Biological processing converts stored energy into a usable form
- Digestion starts with large, complex structures
- Enzymes and acids break chains into smaller pieces
- The final result must be small enough for cells to absorb
- Understanding that food is a form of stored energy that must be converted to be used
- The sequence of breaking down complex nutrients into simple building blocks
- Glucose is the primary energy source for cellular tasks
- Different foods are eventually converted into this single sugar type
- Oxygen acts as a reactant to release energy from sugar
- Without oxygen, the body cannot efficiently harvest fuel
- Metabolism is the sum of all energy-using reactions
- The body maintains a 'background' speed even at rest
- Physical activity increases the rate of chemical processing
- Connecting metabolic rate to body activity levels
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 in Your Daily 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.
Why can't your body use a bite of a sandwich to power a muscle contraction immediately?
Get it right to open this lesson and 11 more in the app.
Where Biology in Your Daily Life takes you
Discover how the invisible machinery of life explains everything from why you get hungry to how your body fights off a cold.
- 1
The Machinery of You
- Fueling Your Body
- Your Internal Security System
- 2
The Blueprint and the World
- The Instructions for Life
- The Web of Connection
2 sections · 4 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
Biology in Your Daily Life is taught in the The Professor style: clear, structured, thorough. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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