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  • noun Plural form of centriole.

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Examples

  • He presents a hypthesis about spindle microtubules in centrioles.

    ID Research, Look to the Example 2005

  • The centrioles are a pair of structures composed of microtubules.

    Answerbag: Latest Questions in Question Categories 2009

  • I’m stunned by the idea that nobody had proposed that the centrioles were a turbine before.

    Make The Leap - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • Outside the cell’s nucleus which now houses a double set of the chromosomes, two organelles referred to as centrioles migrate to opposite sides of the cell.

    THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001

  • Outside the cell’s nucleus which now houses a double set of the chromosomes, two organelles referred to as centrioles migrate to opposite sides of the cell.

    THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001

  • That may well operate via quantum weirdness as well, at least per the Penrose-Hameroff Orch-OR model of consciousness – where tubulin dimers in the microtubules of centrioles and cytoskeleton perform quantum computational information processing by configurational state-switching.

    Coordinated Evolution 2007

  • Remember his “hypothesis” that centrioles are molecular jet engines, and his assertion that this was the basis of cancer?

    Jonathan Wells gets everything wrong, again - The Panda's Thumb 2009

  • Why are flagella, immune systems, centrioles, and blood-clotting cascades not also "developed functions"

    Creationism, defined 2006

  • 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.

    Analogy, How Scientifically Powerful is It? 2006

  • What useful insight into biology is made by the old observation that centrioles look like turbines?

    Clear Thinking? 2005

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