I have a CS background and for me the best explanation of how life fundamentally works was the MIT 7.00x "Introduction to Biology - The Secret of Life" course. It is absolutely amazing, requires only high school level knowledge and covers so many incredible stuff that I cannot possibly list all of it here. And not only is this course teaching you how stuff works but also the history behind it, how we, humans, figured it out. And, it's free and available online!
If you ever wanted to get deeper into biology than reading news articles, I cannot recommend this course enough.
That's a great prompt for DALL-E 2! Someone should try it and compare the results to the real drawings