You can probably learn what you need to know ad hoc, as long as you’re the sort who readily looks stuff up. I use wikipedia all the time for this. In fact wikipedia has a feature now where you can just hover your cursor over a term/link and the first paragraph or so of the main article pops up without even having to click on it. Often this is enough to keep going with what you were reading in the main wikipedia article. But, if not, you can just click on the linked article and read until you feel versed enough, and then return to the main one and to your studies. Anyway, again, that’s what I do for… well… everything! And though I had chem, bio, organic, biochem, physics, math, physiology, molecular biology, etc., I’ve forgotten probably much more detail than I’ve remembered! Plus, all that so-so-long-ago university education is way, way out of date now w/r to current research. So wikipedia to the rescue, is my rule of thumb!