A cutaway animal cell follows labeled cargo from rough ER through Golgi stacks into transport vesicles and across the plasma membrane. Select the nucleus, mitochondria, lysosome or cytoskeleton to inspect compartment functions.
• 3D scene parts: Plasma membrane; nucleus and nucleolus; rough er and ribosomes; golgi cisternae; transport vesicles; mitochondria and cristae; lysosome; cytoskeletal tracks. • Controls: Cargo production rate (0.2–3 teaching units/s); Vesicle transport rate (0.1–2 1/s); Block Golgi export. • Live readouts: ER cargo (units); Golgi cargo (units); Exported cargo (units); Total production (units). • Guided experiments: Export block; Faster trafficking. • Four tabs (visual laboratory, curves and measurements, experiments, learn and assess), a model-verification run, a timestamped event log and a trial report.
dER/dt = production − transport·ER dGolgi/dt = transport·ER − export·Golgi dExported/dt = export·Golgi Produced = ER + Golgi + Exported
Molecular geometry, organelle dimensions and animation time are enlarged and illustrative. Colors identify structures rather than natural tissue color. This is a conceptual teaching model, not a cell physiology predictor. Cargo pools use arbitrary units and linear transfer kinetics, excluding actual trafficking machinery. Try the preset experiments, then compare the live readouts with the equations.
No. Geometry is enlarged and time is a teaching playback scale.
Golgi cargo.
Molecular geometry, organelle dimensions and animation time are enlarged and illustrative. Colors identify structures rather than natural tissue color. This is a conceptual teaching model, not a cell physiology predictor. Cargo pools use arbitrary units and linear transfer kinetics, excluding actual trafficking machinery.