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- noun Plural form of
centriole .
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Examples
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He presents a hypthesis about spindle microtubules in centrioles.
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The centrioles are a pair of structures composed of microtubules.
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I’m stunned by the idea that nobody had proposed that the centrioles were a turbine before.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Why are flagella, immune systems, centrioles, and blood-clotting cascades not also "developed functions"
Creationism, defined 2006
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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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What useful insight into biology is made by the old observation that centrioles look like turbines?
Clear Thinking? 2005
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