The cell, to scale
What a cell is actually like: how big its parts really are, how crowded it is inside, and why nothing in it can be much larger.
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How a cell is built, what its molecules do, and how the instructions are copied and read.
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Every biology module authored so far, in teaching order.
What a cell is actually like: how big its parts really are, how crowded it is inside, and why nothing in it can be much larger.
Carbohydrates, lipids, proteins and nucleic acids — built by one reaction, and separated by differences smaller than they look.
What a catalyst does and does not change, why the temperature curve has a peak, and where a cell's ATP really comes from.
The cycle at true proportions, two counters through a mitosis, and where the variation in a gamete actually comes from.
How traits pass from parents to offspring, why the pattern is probabilistic, and why the neat ratios in the textbook are expectations rather than promises.
From proving that DNA is the carrier to reading a real genome — copying, transcription, the code, and one base that causes a disease.
Every cell has every gene. What differs is which ones are being read, how much, and what keeps that stable.
Cutting, joining, copying and sizing DNA — six workflow steps, each one traced to the problem it solves.
Variation measured before any mechanism, selection with nothing needing anything, drift fixing an allele that improves nothing, and two kinds of evidence recovering the same history.
What a species is when the definition stops working, why one organism needs one name, how to read a tree without misreading it, and four things that fit no group at all.
Every root, stem, leaf and cell wall as an answer to a problem a stationary organism faces — why a potato is a stem, why wood is mostly dead and the trunk is not, and why tree rings tell the age in Kashmir and Kerala but not in a rainforest with no dry season.
Where a tree's mass really comes from, why a leaf is green, the same ATP machine in two organelles, carbon counted atom by atom, and RuBisCO's flaw with its two independent fixes.
Why suction cannot lift water past ten metres and what a tall tree does instead, why an open stoma always costs water, why phloem flows whichever way the sources and sinks set, and which leaves yellow first when a nutrient runs short.
How a plant with no nerves and no muscles decides where to grow, when to flower and what a cut piece of it becomes — read from concentration and tissue, differential growth and night length.
Why an age pyramid predicts, what a carrying capacity is a property of, how long a food chain can be, and why succession so often does not arrive.
Why nobody knows how many species exist, why there are more of them towards the equator, and what area has to do with how many a habitat can hold.
How much of the examined syllabus this platform currently teaches — not how far you have got through it. Finishing everything here would still leave the topics below uncovered.
Not taught here at all
238 line items are not taught here yet. A line item counts as covered only when a chapter teaches the whole of it, and coverage says nothing about depth — so this is a floor on readiness, not a measure of it.