In grade school, we learned that living things are made up of cells, which are powered by mitochondria, and that plants cells have a cell wall. We learned to label those things, and the next year we learned it all over again, which was pretty much all the biology we got before high school. Unless you were lucky and had a couple of days of sex education.
But cells are way more complex than that. The way a cell does its job involves proteins that form amino acids that form structures, machines, and messenger compounds that are more complex than most of us could ever imagine. To make that into something understandable, Kurzgesagt uses language as a metaphor for the basic inner workings of a cell. From an alphabet of 26 letters comes the works of Shakespeare, although building those works requires some amazing things to happen. -via Digg
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ya that cell stuff gets crazy on the microscopic level. I remember watching some video of the entire process of the covid virus, from first entering the body to mass infection. Lots of moving parts moving very precisely.
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