Self-replicating, short, fibrous, rod-shaped organelles. Each centriole is a short cylinder containing nine pairs of peripheral microtubules, arranged so as to form the wall of the cylinder.
    

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Human cell in interphase showing the tubulin component of the cytoskeleton in green and the DNA in red. The centrosome, to which the microtubules attach, can be seen to the right of the nucleus.

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Human cell in interphase showing the tubulin component of the cytoskeleton in green and the DNA in red. The centrosome, to which the microtubules attach, can be seen to the right of the nucleus.