Jupyter Notebook as IDE

[bytecrunch]

Hello everyone,

Installing the Anaconda distro installs a PYthon interpreter, modules, libraries as well as the Jupyter Notebook IDE. Jupyter uses the browser as user interface. The notebooks are JSON files that are then converted to .py files by the Jupyter kernel.
Downloading Jupyter implies downloading:

a) Python kernel
b) server software
c) JS software interacting with the browser

Is that correct? The browser communicates with the server which communicates with the kernel. Does that means that the kernel is the same thing as the Python interpreter then? If so, is that Python interpreter the same interpreter that comes with Anaconda or are they two different Python interpreters?

Thanks!