Every Shape Is an Argument

You'll learnhow to read an organelle's structure to predict its function, and back again.

Topic 1.5 said a protein’s shape is its function. Topic 2.2 says it again one scale up: every organelle is built for the job it does, folding is how a compartment buys more membrane to work on, and one item on the organelle list has no membrane at all. Twelve short steps; press Next for each one.

12 STEPS · 6 QUICK CHECKS · STRUCTURE → FUNCTION, BOTH WAYS · FOLDING BUYS SURFACE AREA · A RIBOSOME HAS NO MEMBRANE · v5

every organelle shape is an argument · read it both ways

Before you start

What you're looking at

One cell outline holding eight organelle tiles, then each structure read one at a time.

The question

Can a shape on its own tell you a job, and a job predict the shape?

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