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But TCP and IP are layers in the protocol (that are actually used.) some of the layers are then effectively bypassed as you go further up to application layer.
The TCP/IP model is a separate model that only loosely maps on to layers of the OSI model. They're two separate ways of describing how the whole network stack should work, but only one is actually used in the real world.
The OSI model is the one used in the real world