Each centriole is built as a cylinder of which arrangement of microtubules?
ANine triplets of microtubules
BNine doublets of microtubules
CThirteen dimers of microtubules
DTwo singlets of microtubules
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Nine triplets of microtubules
1. A centrosome is a microtubule-organizing center found near the nuclei of animal cells.
2. It contains a pair of centrioles that lie perpendicular to each other.
3. Each centriole is a cylinder built from nine triplets of microtubules.
4. Nine doublets around a central doublet describes the 9 plus 2 array of a flagellum or cilium instead, so that answer belongs to a different structure.
5. Nontubulin proteins hold the triplets of a centriole together.
6. The centriole arrangement is nine triplets.
_Source: OpenStax Biology (1st ed., CC BY 4.0), Ch 4 "Cell Structure", section 4.3 Eukaryotic Cells_
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