A big problem right now in biology is the framing of these fundamentals in education. We know some things, but they're typically presented fairly piecewise in higher education.
One example of the fragmentation:
You're in an oncology lab? - study this particular protein and DNA damage association - but cell cycle is downplayed. Or vice versa. There's a lot of segmentation that goes on when the processes are really part of the same system.
In terms of fundamentals, I think we really need to switch towards starting biology education with just the pieces of the minimally viable cell. By using this as a tool to base everything upon, we can make biology a bit more scientific, rather than just the list of observations that it tends to swing towards today.
One example of the fragmentation: You're in an oncology lab? - study this particular protein and DNA damage association - but cell cycle is downplayed. Or vice versa. There's a lot of segmentation that goes on when the processes are really part of the same system.
In terms of fundamentals, I think we really need to switch towards starting biology education with just the pieces of the minimally viable cell. By using this as a tool to base everything upon, we can make biology a bit more scientific, rather than just the list of observations that it tends to swing towards today.