I appeciate your honest response. I agree that science education in high school is pathetic generally. I think my cat could do a better job. She trained me to let her out all hours of the day and night, and wait for her to come in.
I think the confusion in biology begins with the incredible amount of information available. The number of observations is in the trillions even discounting all the material gathering dust in boxes in different institutions' basements. And it stretches from animal behavior in the wild to molecular biochemistry. My dad's been taking a new synthetic catecholamine for his heart. I've been tracking down some of the details of its interaction and I've got thousands of pages of material to go through.
Just this next month alone, we have lecturers coming from Johns Hopkins U and Humbodlt U in Berlin, to talk about chromosomal translocations and methylation of genes. These are the only two I can remember. The schedule is several pages long. Each entry gets a one line description.
There's a lot of money to be made by someone who can figure out how to make all this information easily available.
Happy Easter!