Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of two cylindrical cellular structures that are composed of nine triplet microtubules and form the asters during mitosis.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In cytology, a minute granule in the center of the astrosphere of the dividing-cell.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) one of two small cylindrical cell organelles composes of nine triplet microtubules, which form the asters during mitosis.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biology A barrel shaped
microtubule structure found in most animalcells , important in the process ofmitosis (nuclear division).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one of a pair of small cylindrical cell organelles near the nucleus in animal cells; composed of nine triplet microtubules and form the asters during mitosis
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Besides, no Darwinist has ever tested whether the centriole is actually a functioning turbine.
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Wells makes clear in the paper that his assumptions are based on the thesis that the centriole is a designed object, like a machine, and should be studied as one.
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Wells makes clear in the paper that his assumptions are based on the thesis that the centriole is a designed object, like a machine, and should be studied as one.
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Basically his theory is based on intelligent design because he posits that the centriole is a system rather then a set of partially independent parts.
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Wells makes clear in the paper that his assumptions are based on the thesis that the centriole is a designed object, like a machine, and should be studied as one.
ID-friendly journal paper makes testable predictions Denyse O 2005
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As an aside, it is probably more true that his thesis is based on the assumption that the centriole is a "designed object".
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In the middle of the centrosome is a minute body called the centriole, and surrounding this is a clear spherical mass known as the centrosphere.
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Case in point – Wells '"paper" on centrioles, where he describes centriole structure, then describes the structure of a rotor-driven turbine … end of story … it's a hollow argument.
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However, we have no experience of anyone designing a centriole.
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If the centriole looks like a designed turbine (ones that humans make), then the design inference is strong (we have direct experience of an intelligent agent having designed something like it).
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