Wake Biology.Learning.Ap
Wake Biology.Learning.Ap
Everything you need to use Wake Biology.Learning.Ap — how to start, which courses it teaches, how a lesson and its drill work, how to read a report, and how to keep results safe.
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Biology is the study of living things — how a cell works, how a body stays alive, how plants feed the world, how living things pass on what they are to their young, and how they depend on one another. This app teaches it one short lesson at a time, with a drill after every lesson and an explanation after every answer.
It is for learners of about twelve and over, adults included. Each examination course has its own parts, written at that course's level. The courses are being written now, in this order:
It does not send anything to an AI service or anywhere else. It does not copy past examination papers: its questions are its own, written on the same topics. It does not replace practical work — looking down a microscope, testing a leaf for starch — which every one of these courses expects. And its report describes work done in the app; it is not an examination result.
Most of biology is words and pictures, but some questions need a short calculation — a magnification, a percentage change, a ratio of offspring. The numbers are chosen to work out neatly, but a calculator and a piece of paper help.
▲ Back to the contentsThe app runs in a web browser, but it is meant to live on the home screen like any other app. On Android, open it in Chrome, tap the three dots and choose Add to Home screen or Install app. On iPhone, open it in Safari, tap the share button and choose Add to Home Screen.
Once it is there it opens full screen and works with no internet at all.
Opening the file inside WhatsApp, Gmail or a file manager shows a preview, and previews do not run apps: the buttons will not respond. Ask for the web link rather than the file, and open it in Chrome or Safari.
Tap Add a learner, then give a first name, an age and a picture. No email is asked for, and the free trial starts at once. Before it ends the app shows the plans; when it ends it offers a few more free days, once. A grown-up's email is asked for only if you choose to pay, because the receipt goes there.
Nothing is locked. The lessons are numbered in the order the course is usually taught — that is guidance, not a gate. A pupil revising for an examination can go straight to the topic their class is on.
One lesson and its drill a day, five days a week. Read every page, do the drill with a pencil in hand, and read the explanation after every answer — including the ones you got right.
▲ Back to the contentsEach course is listed here, with what it covers and how many lessons it has, as it is written. All six courses are in.
| Part | What it covers |
|---|---|
| 🔬 IGCSE Biology 1 18 lessons |
Cambridge IGCSE Biology 0610 (syllabus for exams in 2026 to 2028), topics 1 to 3. It begins with the course and its papers, then the characteristics of living things, classification and keys, the kingdoms, cells and specialised cells, magnification, diffusion, osmosis and active transport. |
| 🌿 IGCSE Biology 2 13 lessons |
Topics 4 to 6: carbohydrates, fats and proteins, the food tests and DNA; enzymes; photosynthesis, the experiments that show what it needs, limiting factors and the structure of a leaf. |
| ❤️ IGCSE Biology 3 17 lessons |
Topics 7 to 9: diet, the digestive system, teeth, digestion and absorption; xylem, phloem, water uptake, transpiration and translocation; the heart, blood vessels and blood. |
| 🦠 IGCSE Biology 4 11 lessons |
Topics 10 to 13: pathogens, defences, immunity, vaccination and cholera; the lungs and breathing; aerobic and anaerobic respiration; the kidneys and the liver. |
| 🧠 IGCSE Biology 5 16 lessons |
Topics 14 to 16: nerves and reflexes, the eye, hormones, homeostasis and tropisms; antibiotics; reproduction in flowering plants and in humans, sex hormones and sexually transmitted infections. |
| 🧬 IGCSE Biology 6 10 lessons |
Topics 17 and 18: chromosomes, genes and proteins; mitosis and meiosis; genetic diagrams, Punnett squares and pedigrees, codominance, blood groups and sex linkage; variation, adaptation, natural selection and selective breeding. |
| 🌍 IGCSE Biology 7 17 lessons |
Topics 19 to 21: food webs, pyramids, the carbon and nitrogen cycles and populations; food production, habitat destruction, pollution and conservation; biotechnology and genetic modification. It ends with three lessons on the skills of the practical papers: planning, recording and graphs, drawings and evaluation. |
| 🔬 IGCSE Biology practical: Papers 5 and 6 22 lessons |
The practical papers taught properly, whether your school sits Paper 5 at the bench or Paper 6 on paper: reading drawn scales, tables, graphs, evaluation, variables, safety, and drawing specimens with magnification; then thirteen experiments worked in full — food tests, diffusion, osmosis in yam, amylase and pH, catalase, pondweed, hydrogencarbonate indicator, a potometer, respiring seeds, heart rate, germination and tropisms, quadrats and variation, and a whole plan — and the mistakes examiners see every year. |
IGCSE Biology has 102 lessons and 1,016 questions, with 91 drawn diagrams. Ghanaian examples are used where they fit: cholera and the Veronica bucket, cassava and maize, Kakum and Mole, galamsey on the Pra.
| Part | What it covers |
|---|---|
| 💧 AP Biology 1 20 lessons |
The College Board's AP Biology course (Course and Exam Description effective fall 2025), units 1 and 2. It begins with the course, the exam and how to read error bars, then water, the elements of life and the four kinds of macromolecule; cell structure, cell size, the plasma membrane, transport, tonicity and water potential, and where mitochondria and chloroplasts came from. |
| 🔋 AP Biology 2 14 lessons |
Units 3 and 4: enzymes and what affects them, cellular energy, photosynthesis and cellular respiration; cell communication, signal transduction, feedback, the cell cycle and its regulation. |
| 🧬 AP Biology 3 18 lessons |
Units 5 and 6: meiosis, Mendelian genetics, the chi-square test and non-Mendelian inheritance; DNA and RNA, replication, transcription, translation, gene regulation, mutations and biotechnology. |
| 🌍 AP Biology 4 20 lessons |
Units 7 and 8: natural selection, population genetics and Hardy–Weinberg, the evidence for evolution, phylogeny, speciation and the origin of life; responses to the environment, energy flow and nutrient cycles, population and community ecology, biodiversity and disruptions to ecosystems. |
| 🔬 AP Biology labs 22 lessons |
AP has no practical paper, so this teaches the labs and the free-response questions set in a lab: designing an investigation, graphs, mean, standard error and ±2SE error bars, chi-square and claims; then thirteen labs worked in full — osmosis, enzymes, leaf discs, respiration, mitosis counts, artificial selection, Hardy–Weinberg, BLAST, transpiration, energy dynamics, fruit fly behaviour, transformation and gels — two whole free-response questions answered, and the common mistakes. |
AP Biology has 72 lessons and 720 questions, with 59 drawn diagrams. The exam gives a sheet of formulas — water potential, chi-square with its table of critical values, Hardy–Weinberg, rates and growth — and the lessons use them exactly as it writes them. Nothing the College Board has ruled out of the exam is taught as if it were examined.
| Part | What it covers |
|---|---|
| 🔬 AS Biology 1 20 lessons |
Cambridge International AS & A Level Biology 9700 (syllabus for exams in 2025 to 2027; the syllabus for 2028 to 2030 has the same content). It begins with the five papers, then topics 1 to 4: microscopy, magnification and cell structure; carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, water and the tests for them; enzymes, inhibitors, Vmax and Km; membranes, transport and water potential. |
| 🩸 AS Biology 2 19 lessons |
Topics 5 to 8: chromosomes, the cell cycle, mitosis and the mitotic index; DNA, replication, transcription and translation; transport in plants; blood vessels, haemoglobin and the Bohr shift, the heart and the cardiac cycle. |
| 🦠 AS Biology 3 17 lessons |
Topics 9 to 11: the gas exchange system; cholera, malaria, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and antibiotics; phagocytes, lymphocytes, antibodies, vaccination and monoclonal antibodies. It ends with three lessons on the practical skills of Paper 3. |
| 🔋 A Level Biology 1 18 lessons |
Topics 12 to 14: ATP, glycolysis, the Krebs cycle, oxidative phosphorylation and respiratory quotients; chloroplasts, pigments, the light-dependent reactions and the Calvin cycle; homeostasis, the kidney, osmoregulation, blood glucose and stomata. |
| 🧠 A Level Biology 2 20 lessons |
Topics 15 and 16: hormones and nerves, action potentials, synapses and muscle contraction; plant responses; meiosis, monohybrid and dihybrid crosses, linkage, epistasis, the chi-squared test and the control of gene expression. |
| 🌍 A Level Biology 3 22 lessons |
Topics 17 to 19: variation and the t-test, natural selection, Hardy–Weinberg, drift and speciation; classification, sampling, correlation, Simpson's index and conservation; genetic technology, PCR and gel electrophoresis. It ends with three lessons on planning, statistics and evaluation for Paper 5. |
| 🔬 Cambridge Biology practical: Paper 3 20 lessons | The practical exam, taught properly: variables, risk, tables, graphs and evaluation; six microscope tasks (calibrating a graticule, plan diagrams, cell drawings, photomicrographs, stomata counts, a root tip squash); and seven investigations with dilutions, food tests, enzymes, osmosis, colorimetry and agar cubes. |
| 📝 Cambridge Biology planning: Paper 5 18 lessons | Planning, analysis and evaluation: predictions, variables, methods, risk and ethics; mean, standard deviation, standard error and confidence intervals; the t-test, chi-squared, Spearman's rank and Pearson's correlation, each worked with numbers; and three whole investigations planned. |
AS & A Level Biology has 116 lessons and 1,160 questions, with 95 drawn diagrams. A pupil taking the AS Level needs AS Biology 1 to 3; the full A Level needs all six parts.
| Part | What it covers |
|---|---|
| 🧭 IB Biology 1 18 lessons |
IB Diploma Programme Biology (first assessment 2025), Theme A, Unity and diversity. It begins with SL and HL, the papers and the internal assessment, then water, nucleic acids, the origins of cells, cell structure, viruses, classification and cladistics, evolution and speciation, and conservation. |
| ❤️ IB Biology 2 18 lessons |
Theme B, Form and function: carbohydrates, lipids and proteins; membranes, organelles and specialised cells; gas exchange, transport, muscle and motility; adaptation and ecological niches. |
| 🔋 IB Biology 3 16 lessons |
Theme C, molecules and cells: enzymes and metabolism, cell respiration, photosynthesis, chemical signalling and neural signalling. |
| 🦠 IB Biology 4 15 lessons |
Theme C, organisms and ecosystems: integration of body systems, defence against disease, populations and communities, and transfers of energy and matter. |
| 🧬 IB Biology 5 16 lessons |
Theme D, molecules and cells: DNA replication and PCR, protein synthesis, mutation and gene editing, cell division, gene expression and epigenetics, and water potential. |
| 🌍 IB Biology 6 23 lessons |
Theme D, organisms and ecosystems: reproduction, inheritance, homeostasis, natural selection, stability and change in ecosystems, and climate change. |
| 🔬 IB Biology practical work and the IA 24 lessons |
IB practical work taught properly: the Tools and the Inquiry process, standard deviation and error bars, the t-test, chi-squared and correlation, and technology; the internal assessment, one lesson for each of its four criteria, with weak and strong extracts of our own (the app never writes or marks an IA — it must be the student's own work); then twelve investigations and Paper 1B questions worked in full, from osmosis in cassava to a transect and a whole Paper 1B question, and the common mistakes. |
IB Biology has 106 lessons and 1,060 questions, with 101 drawn diagrams. SL and HL students share the course: a lesson with (HL) in its name is for HL students only, and so are pages headed "HL only" and questions that begin "HL:". It follows the IB's own ways of saying things — osmosis in terms of solute concentration at SL, water potential at HL only, and both names for epinephrine (adrenaline).
| Part | What it covers |
|---|---|
| 🇬🇭 Ghana JHS Science 1 21 lessons |
The biology parts of JHS Integrated Science, B7 to B9: animal and plant cells, prokaryotes and eukaryotes, specialised cells; the housefly, the mosquito and malaria, the grasshopper; food, digestion, food tests and deficiency diseases; the teeth; blood, the heart, blood pressure and respiration. |
| 🌿 Ghana JHS Science 2 16 lessons |
Ecosystems, food chains and food webs, and keeping them in balance; the plants and animals of Ghana's landforms; mutualism, parasitism and commensalism; health and disease; viral, bacterial and fungal diseases; non-communicable diseases and cancer; what plants need from the soil; soils, water and roots; the uses of plant parts; ruminants, monogastrics and poultry. |
Ghana JHS Science has 37 lessons and 370 questions, with 25 drawn diagrams. JHS Science is Integrated Science, and this course teaches only its biology parts. Its first lesson says so plainly: a pupil still needs a school book for farm tools, farming systems, waste management and rocks, and the physics and chemistry parts are in Wake Physics.Learning.Ap and Wake Chemistry.Learning.Ap.
| Part | What it covers |
|---|---|
| 📘 Ghana SHS Biology 1 43 lessons |
SHS 1: biology and the scientific method; symmetry, drawing and the microscope; fish farming and eutrophication; diffusion, osmosis and their practicals; keys and classification; Amoeba, Euglena and Spirogyra; ecology, sampling, the Lincoln index and pyramids; malaria, tapeworms, bilharzia, Ascaris and hookworm; the mammal and its dissection; plant tissues and growth. |
| 📗 Ghana SHS Biology 2 35 lessons |
SHS 2: Rhizopus, moss and fern; improving crops and farm animals; cells and organelles; DNA, replication and protein synthesis; the weevil, butterfly, housefly and honeybee; tropical habitats and adaptation; immunisation; the heart, blood and the kidney; transport in plants and the ringing experiment; photosynthesis. |
| 📙 Ghana SHS Biology 3 44 lessons |
SHS 3: fermentation (kenkey, pito, akpeteshie), tissue culture and GMOs; genetics, Mendel and blood groups; variation and evolution; mitosis and meiosis; tilapia, toad, gecko and fowl; associations and data; emerging diseases and Buruli ulcer; breathing and respiration; reproduction and reproductive health; the skeleton, nerves, hormones, the eye and the ear; flowers, fruits, seeds and dispersal. |
| 🔬 WASSCE Biology practical: Paper 3 22 lessons |
WAEC's practical paper taught properly, including the question set only in Ghana: identifying specimens, biological drawings the WAEC way, magnification, tables of differences and the microscope; then fifteen worked practicals — temporary slides, the onion root tip, Spirogyra and Rhizopus, mosses and ferns, insect orders, keys, food and soil tests, the dissected mammal, the respiratory quotient, monocots and dicots, flowers and floral formulae, fruits, vertebrae and adaptations — and the mistakes WAEC's examiners report. |
Ghana SHS Biology has 122 lessons and 1,220 questions, with 81 drawn diagrams. It follows the new NaCCA curriculum taught from 2024/25 and examined at WASSCE, uses the names Ghanaian books and WAEC use (carbon(IV) oxide, potassium tetraoxomanganate(VII)), and describes every practical step by step with the result a pupil should expect.
Every lesson that serves a course shows its topic number on its first page — for example
Cambridge IGCSE Biology 0610: 2.1 — so a teacher can match a lesson to the
topic being taught. A few topics are split into two lessons where there is a lot to learn.
Equations, such as the word and symbol equations for photosynthesis, are shown in a box, one to a line, exactly as they are written in the course.
A lesson that needs a picture has one, drawn under the words on that page with a line underneath saying what it shows.
The pictures are drawn by the app itself rather than downloaded, so they cost nothing to fetch, they appear with the connection dead, and they stay sharp whether the app is on a small phone or a projector.
▲ Back to the contentsTap a lesson and its pages appear one at a time — Next page and Back move between them. On the last page, Start the drill appears. A learner who already knows the lesson can tap I know this — go straight to the drill from any page.
| Kind | What the learner does |
|---|---|
| Choose the answer | Reads the question, works it out, and taps one of four answers. The wrong answers are the mistakes pupils really make — forgetting a square, mixing up sine and cosine, leaving out a direction — so guessing does not pay. |
| Put the steps in order | Taps the steps of a method — solving a projectile problem, for example — in the right order. Each right step is numbered; the first wrong tap ends the question and the right order is shown. |
Calculations are worked out on paper, so any question with numbers in it has a yellow pencil button in its top corner. Tapping it opens a sheet of squared paper with the question written across the top. The learner writes on it with a finger or a pen — Rubber takes a stroke away, Undo takes back the last one, Clear wipes the sheet — and Back to the question returns to the answers. Nothing written there is saved or marked: the paper is wiped when the next question comes, exactly as a rough sheet is. On a phone with a stylus, a hand resting on the screen will not draw.
After every answer, right or wrong, the app shows the right answer and why it is right, usually with the working. Nothing moves on by itself: the learner reads the explanation and taps Next question. A drill that only says “wrong” teaches a learner to guess faster.
About four in ten questions in a round are drawn from what that learner has missed before, so weak spots are practised until they are secure. Mixed revision on the home screen draws questions from every lesson the learner has started.
▲ Back to the contentsReports, Settings, Support and the class dashboard sit behind a multiplication question. It is not security; it simply stops a report or a setting being changed by accident.
Points, drills done, best score and the day streak sit at the top. Below them, Go straight to a part has a button for every course, and under each course's lessons Back to the list of parts brings you back up. Then comes Mixed revision, then the lessons grouped by course. Each lesson tile shows its number, how many pages and questions it has, and — once drilled — the percentage right so far.
Scores over time, seconds per question, a bar for each lesson, and the lesson board: every lesson, course by course — green where it is secure, yellow nearly there, pink needing more work, plain not started.
The questions this learner gets wrong most often, hardest first, with a button to practise exactly those. Use it twice a week.
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Questions per round | 5, 10, 15 or 20. A lesson's drill never repeats a question to fill a round, so a short lesson gives a shorter drill. |
| Sounds | Turns the tones off. Useful in a classroom. |
| Animations | Turns off movement. |
| Bring back questions I missed more often | Weaves past mistakes back into rounds. Leave it on. |
| Way of speaking and voice | Kept for later. The lessons are not read aloud yet. |
The report is written from the learner's own recorded answers. It shows drills done, accuracy, lessons started and secure, each course and each lesson, a chart, the questions missed most with the point each one teaches, and recommendations. You can print it, save it as a PDF, email it or send it on WhatsApp.
Understanding matters more than speed, and some questions take time to think through. A dip in recent scores often just means newer lessons are harder. Four or five drills must exist before a trend means anything.
With a class licence, the teacher's dashboard shows every learner on the device, sorted so whoever needs attention comes first, and what the class as a whole finds hard. It can also take a backup file sent from a learner's own phone, so home practice appears with the class. A teacher using Wake Mark.Book.Ap can bring the weekly drill marks into their mark book.
The app shows the words with a Copy button, and you paste them wherever you like. Copy first and nothing can be lost.
▲ Back to the contentsA licence belongs to the household or the classroom, not to one learner. A family paying for three learners is never asked to pay again for the second.
Schools can receive a code after payment. Enter it on the plans screen. You need internet for this one step: a code is checked with our server the first time it is used. After that the app works with no internet, for as long as the plan lasts.
Each Wake app has its own codes, and a code for one app will not open another. If the wrong one is entered, the app says which app the code belongs to.
A warning appears a few days before. When it ends, nothing is deleted — the learner's whole history stays and returns the moment the plan is renewed.
▲ Back to the contentsAlmost always the browser's data was cleared, or the app was opened in a different browser. Results live in the browser that made them. Restore from a backup — see the next chapter.
Close every tab of the app and open it again, with internet on.
The right answer and the wrong ones are far enough apart that careful working decides between them. Read the working in the explanation: the usual cause is a missed square, a minus sign, or a value left in kilometres or grams instead of metres or kilograms.
Read the explanation after the answer slowly, then go back to that lesson's pages. The app will keep bringing the question back until it is right — that is practice, not a fault.
Please tell us through Support, saying which lesson and question. Every report is checked and corrected.
Use the Copy the words button and paste into your email by hand.
▲ Back to the contentsEvery result lives in this browser on this device, and nowhere else. Nothing is uploaded to us. That keeps a learner's data private — and it means that clearing the browser, changing phone or reinstalling will lose the work unless you have saved a backup.
Settings → Save a backup writes a small file to the device. Email it to yourself and it is safe. Do this at the end of each term, and before changing phone. To bring it back: Settings → Restore from a backup. If the learner already exists on the device, the copy with more history is kept, so restoring can never quietly lose work.
Settings → Clear results wipes that learner's scores, charts, points, questions missed and which lessons have been read. The learner stays, and so does your subscription.
Settings → Erase this pupil removes that learner and all their results from the device. It cannot be undone, so save a backup first. If the subscription was bought on this learner, it goes with them — to start fresh, use Clear results instead.
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