Imagine a restaurant kitchen at 7 pm. The chef (the microbe) is cooking. The pantry (the substrate, sugar) is being emptied. The dishes going out (the product) pile up. The air in the kitchen (dissolved oxygen) gets thinner as more cooks join. At first nothing happens (the cooks arrive and put their aprons on: the lag phase), then orders fly (exponential growth), then the pantry runs low and the pace flattens (stati…
If you only do one thing this week: monod.py with the plot
OpenStax Biology 2e, ch. 7 "Cellular Respiration" — 7-introduction — Glycolysis → citric acid cycle → oxidative phosphorylation, then 7.5 Metabolism without Oxygen. Moved out of core on 2026-09-29