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Comparative analysis of openstax biology and ncert biology

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The sequence of chapters: Openstax biology: In openstax biology, chapters are arranged based on increasing biological complexity . The second chapter is about atoms, molecules, water, and carbons. It gives applied techniques about how biology is being done, for example, carbon dating, molecular interactions that take place in lifeforms and why, how it takes place, its describes all the basics at the atomic and molecular level, and also talks about environmental conditions of life forms such as pH. At the end of the chapter, it says about Carbon, and why it's important for life. Next chapter is about Biological Macromolecules (increasing complexity from atoms to long polymers), then cell structure and other chapters about functioning. Evolution is taught before the five kingdom classification. Why? Because classification is completely phylogenetically linked. You have to understand evolution, in order to understand classification. Classification is also written with linking ev...

Jupyter notebook to write notes and exercises, learn by applying knowledge

Jupyter notebook can be used to make your notes and solve exercises with programming without using pen and paper. In order to write notes, you can use markdown which is a very simple markup language and can be learned within 15mins to get started. You can use latex and Unicode characters to write equations and symbols. To learn latex you can use google, e.g. website https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Mathematics Jupyter notebook can be used in any subjects where the calculation is required, such as physics, mathematics, economics, even biology etc. No need to scratch your head, if you forgot the formula, or made mistakes in calculation when done with pen and paper. Learn by applying things that will be useful in real life situations Everyone should learn code, in early age just like other subjects. One computer to each child is required. https://github.com/amiyatulu/teaching_chemistry View: https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/amiyatulu/teaching_chemistry/blob/master...