<p>I am going to take AP Biology this upcoming school year. I've checked out a PR book and have seen hippocampus.org and so far it seems like it is a lot of memorization. I'm normally used to learning through intuition. How can I make biology more intuitive? Some things are common sense, but the majority seems like you need to memorize it, recognize it, regurgitate it. Am I mistaken?</p>
<p>Yes, you are. This is definitely a concept-based course. It's not like you have to memorize all the bones and muscles of the body or the parts of the brain or all the animal phyla. You just need to be able to conceptualize the different biological processes like mitosis/meiosis, transcription/translation, photosynthesis/respiration, and stuff like that. Don't sweat. If you like biology, it'll should come very naturally to you.</p>
<p>Biology is also about connections - the average student memorizes, and the above-average student knows material through understanding.</p>
<p>I took the class, and I always just moved all the systems and processes around through my mind looking at it from as many different angles as possible, and trying to understand it as well as I could. By the end of the course, I realized that I had all the terms memorized.</p>