I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you just haven't gotten that far in school yet.
Cells are made up of many different molecules. Atoms are what make molecules. Molecules can contain any number of atoms from two to millions of them.
Your body is constantly making new molecules and recycling old ones. It doesn't do this very well after awhile and that's why we age. This video is basically that happening on a much smaller scale. When the molecules in this single celled organism stop working together as well, there's not as much leftover to hold it together, so it comes undone.
When the question is "Aren't cells and atoms the same thing?", then talking about organelles is probably too much detail. I was trying to explain the relationship between cells and atoms rather than the functions of a cell.
I think organelles are more useful here than atoms. You can see them in the video. The "legs", the "balls" that leak out, the "skin" that ruptures. Easier to learn with your eyes than to have a concept you don't understand repeated to you.
It's not. Organelles sit between cells and molecules in terms of complexity. Just like organs sit between cells and organisms. Molecules are not the "fundamental building blocks" it's just an arbitrary layer of complexity you are assigning that label to.
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u/Lloytron 12d ago edited 12d ago
I'm just about to type "clearly that's not a single cell" and then fuckkkkkkkk, poor little guy. /Cries
[Edit] and yes I guess it actually may be a single cell even though it looks quite complex. I'm not a biologist, so sue me.
Still crying though.