Name: Hap S.
Status: Educator
Age: 30s
Location: N/A
Country: N/A
Date: December 2004
Question:
Dear Sir,
I am a teacher. I have been preparing a lesson about centriole, cilia and
flagella. I have a doubt about basal body. I want to make sure that
whether basal body and centriole are the same thing? Another question is:
Centrioles are one of the components of the centrosome or centrosome is
just an area surround the centriole?
Replies:
Cilia are organized (assembled) from centrioles located at the cell
margin...these are then called basal and are a specialized form of
centrioles.
The centrosome, or the microtubule organizing center, is usually considered
an AREA in the cell where microtubles are assembled. An animal cell
centrosome has a pair of centrioles, that are each made of nine groups of
microtubules.
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