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Courses Every course, from first steps to research
Paths An order to follow for your goal
Teachers Free for your classes
About How it is made and checked
Methods library One short film for every method the courses teach
Metabolism Arcade Six games for learning the pathways
The Fun Stuff Trading cards, memes, songs, by BIOL 3030 students
We Are Biochemistry A podcast
The Molecule Hunters The book behind the scientist profiles, free to read

MCAT practice · Topic practice

Topic practice

Pick a topic for ten questions. These are the stand-alone kind; for passages with data, use the passage sets.

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Biochemistrypedia

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A note on the figures. The illustrations in the lessons are AI-generated. An image model draws each one from a written description, and a second model checks it against the lesson. Each is marked as AI-generated, and none shows a chemical structure or data. Some lecture slides also use AI-assisted illustration, and a few carry a caption flagging a specific artifact on that slide — a bond drawn wrong, a ring in the wrong chair. For anything you intend to memorize, work from the live 3D structures in the lesson’s Explore panel: those load by accession ID from RCSB PDB and PubChem, so no one has drawn them by hand or by model. How each part is made and checked is on the About page, and each lesson’s Sources & Integrity panel lists what applies to it. Found an error? Tell me and I will fix it.

The code is MIT-licensed. AI models drafted most of the lesson text, working from Prof. Deppmann’s lectures, The Molecule Hunters and the research literature, under his direction. The lesson narrative and scientist profiles remain the authors’ own (see the NOTICE). Structures load live from RCSB PDB (CC0) and PubChem. Simulations from PhET Interactive Simulations (CC BY 4.0).

Science is a team sport. Most of what we know was handed over by someone who was under no obligation to share it.

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