Our teaching philosophy is based upon facilitation and guidance in learning biological concepts and skills rather than simply laying out a set of facts for consumption and later regurgitation.
Most students entering college have yet to learn how to learn.
Learning is an active and highly individualized process. So, when a student asks a question we will attempt to discover the limit of their knowledge with careful questioning. Surely, but not without first trying the above approach. I think we might find that information in such and such a reference. The most aged and learned of academics do not have all the answers and it would be the height of hypocrisy to presume they did.