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Overview of animal and plant cells. Topics include cell walls, vacuoles, chloroplasts, peroxisomes, lysosomes, mitochondria, etc.

This is a short tutorial on how to define and measure the perimeter of shapes

By the end of this course you will be able to:

1. Define the terms perimeter and area
2. Find the perimeter of any polygon
3. Find the perimeter and area of a trapezium, parallelogram, rectangle and square
4. Find the area of a triangle
5. Find the perimeter and area of a circle

Even though molecules, proteins, viruses, and cells are all tiny, there are significant size differences between them. The diameter of a water molecule is roughly 0.28 nanometers. The diameter of the protein hemoglobin is roughly 5 nanometers. The diameter of the HIV virus is roughly 120 nanometers. A red blood cell is 6-8 micrometers.