About this site
About Rules of Biology
Rules of Biology is an independent study blog for biology students. It explains syllabus topics in plain language, shows how to answer exam questions, and covers the areas textbooks usually skip — medicinal and aromatic plants, ecology, genetics and research methods.
Why this blog exists
I began Rules of Biology while I was studying biology at university. It grew out of the notes I was making for my own exams.
Every exam season I ran into the same problem. Detailed material was either buried in textbooks too long to revise from, or condensed into bullet lists too thin to understand. Topics such as the malaria life cycle, survivorship curves, homeostasis and research design were everywhere in question papers and nowhere in a form I could actually learn from. So I started writing the explanations I needed, for myself. Readers found them, questions started arriving, and the blog became a permanent project.
Everything here is still written the way I wrote it then: enough detail to be correct, plain enough to be revised from the night before an exam.
What you will find here
Chapter-wise notes
Grade 11 and Grade 12 Biology, arranged to match the order of standard curricula so you can revise alongside your class.
B.Sc. study guides
Botany and Zoology topics written for university-level courses, with more depth and terminological accuracy than school notes.
Medicinal & aromatic plants
Identification, chemical constituents, cultivation and traditional uses — the practical side of ethnobotany that syllabi list but rarely explain.
Exam skills
How to draw and label diagrams properly, how to structure long answers for full marks, and which topics repeat most often in papers.
Alongside these, you will find standalone explainers on core ideas — ecology, genetics, physiology, research methodology and statistics — that students keep asking about.
Who writes it
Our editorial standards
- Written from the syllabus, not copied from it. I never reproduce textbook text, syllabus documents or question papers. Where a syllabus defines what must be covered, the explanation of it is my own.
- Checked before publishing. Facts, terminology, diagrams, equations and scientific names are verified against standard textbooks, peer-reviewed literature and updated syllabus documents before a post goes live, and reviewed again when the syllabus changes.
- Plain language by design. If a sentence needs a dictionary to read, it gets rewritten. Complex ideas are explained in steps, with examples.
- Images and attribution. Every image is my own photograph, a diagram I have drawn, or a freely licensed image credited to its source.
- No paid placements inside lessons. Advertisers and sponsors have no influence over what the notes say.
- Honest about limits. These notes support your course; they do not replace your teacher, your practicals or your prescribed textbook.
How the site is funded
Rules of Biology is free to read and is supported by display advertising. Ads are served automatically and are kept separate from the teaching content — a note is never written, changed or removed because of an advertiser. If the site ever earns a commission from a link, that link will be labelled.
Corrections and topic requests
Biology is full of details, and details get things wrong sometimes. If you spot a mistake — a wrong scientific name, a mistyped equation, an unclear diagram — email me and I will correct the page and credit you in the post. Several articles here exist because a reader asked a question that I could not answer well enough.
Contact
Questions, corrections and topic requests are all welcome at chapternowlive@gmail.com, or through the contact page. I read every message, though replies can take a few days during term.
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