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n. - One of a pair of small cylindrical cell organelles near the nucleus in animal cells.

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  • Besides, no Darwinist has ever tested whether the centriole is actually a functioning turbine.
  • As an aside, it is probably more true that his thesis is based on the assumption that the centriole is a "designed object".
  • 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.
  • 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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