Tag: chromatids

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
October 24, 2025

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Actin, animal cells, basal bodies, biology, cell division, cell theory, centrioles, checkpoints, chromatids, chromosomes, communication network, congression, conifers, Croatia, DNA, evolution, flowering plants, humans, intelligent design, interphase, intra-flagellar transport, Iva M. Tolić, kinetochores, Kruno Vukušić, light microscope, metaphase, microtubule, mitosis, myosin, Nature Communications, oocytes, Phys.org, protists, Ruđer Bošković Institute}

Centrioles Revealed as Part of a Large Signaling Network

_{David Coppedge
October 24, 2025

Biology, Intelligent Design

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What molecular structure forms cartwheels, is architecturally beautiful, and is vital for cell division? Read More ›

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post

Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
May 26, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, anaphase, aneuploidy, biology, biologyu, cancer, cancer cells, cell fusion, cell proliferation, cells, chromatids, chromosomal instability, chromosome, chromosome missegregation, cohesin ring, cytokinesis failure, DNA, E-Cadherin, endoreduplication, eukaryotic cell cycle, intelligent cause, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, kinetochore, micronuclei, mitotic cell division, mitotic spindle, oocytes, proteasome, securin, separase, spindle assembly checkpoint, tetraploidization, tetraploidy, tumorigenesis, tumors}

How Do Mitotic Errors Affect Cell Proliferation?

_{Jonathan McLatchie
May 26, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine

12}

This review furthers the argument that I have developed elsewhere that the eukaryotic cell division cycle is elegantly engineered and irreducibly complex. Read More ›

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post

Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
March 19, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, anaphase, ATP hydrolysis, cell death, cell division, centrosomes, chromatids, chromatin, chromosome condensation, chromosomes, clawed frog, condensins, cytokinesis, DNA, Inner Centromere Protein, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, kinase, mice, mislocalization, mitosis, mitotic cell division, mitotic chromosome, mitotic progression, phosphorylation, proteins, RNA interference, Structural Maintenance of Chromosomes, teleology, topoisomerase, topoisomerase IIα, Xenopus}

Irreducible Complexity Nested Within Irreducible Complexity: The Case of Chromosome Condensation

_{Jonathan McLatchie
March 19, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

15}

It is highly implausible that such a wonder of engineering arose by means of an unguided evolutionary process. Read More ›

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post

Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
August 26, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, anaphase, cell division, chromatids, chromosomes, Down syndrome, eukaryotic cell cycle, kinetochore, microtubules, mitosis, mitotic cell division, prometaphase, prophase, proteins, quality control, somatic cells, spindle assembly checkpoint, telophase}

The Elegant Spindle Assembly Checkpoint

_{Jonathan McLatchie
August 26, 2024

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

11}

Without this exquisitely engineered system, the cell risks distributing an uneven number of chromosomes to the daughter cells. Read More ›

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post

Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
May 8, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, ATP hydrolysis, cell division, centrosomes, chromatids, chromosomes, Discovery Institute, dynein, irreducibly complex systems, kinesin, mitosis, mitotic cell division, mitotic spindle, molecular machines, molecular motor, phosphorylation, spindle, tubulin}

Astounding: The Role of Motor Proteins in Cell Division

_{Jonathan McLatchie
May 8, 2024

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

8}

A crucial aspect of mitosis is the movement of chromosomes — initially the alignment of as paired sister chromatids during prometaphase and metaphase. Read More ›

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post

Date
January 31, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ATP, biochemists, Cell (journal), chromatids, chromatin, chromosomes, cohesin, condensin, cryo-electron microscopy, DNA, intelligent design, Korea, loop extrusion, nucleus, The Scientist, Vienna, X-ray}

DNA Packing: One of the Supreme Wonders of Nature

_{Science and Culture
January 31, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

The cell packs two meters of DNA into a 10-micron nucleus. How? The machinery is as intelligently designed as the genome itself. Read More ›

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post

Author
Richard Sternberg

Date
July 16, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, arthropods, centromere, centrosome, chromatids, chromosomes, DNA, Drosophila melanogaster, egg cells, euchromatin, fertilization, functionality, heterochromatin, information, kinetochore, meiosis, morphogenesis, oocyte, Robert Rosen, Turing Machine, vertebrates}

Chromosome Dynamics Has Egg-centric Features

_{Richard Sternberg
July 16, 2020

Intelligent Design

7}

In the words of Robert Rosen we have to “drastically reconsider what is meant by “genetic information.’” Read More ›

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post

Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
July 13, 2011

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, __edited, asexual reproduction, chromatids, complementarity, foresight, gametes, meiosis, parasites, sexual reproduction}

Sex, the Queen of Problems in Evolutionary Biology

_{Jonathan McLatchie
July 13, 2011

Evolution, Life Sciences, Reproductive Science

9}

The origin and subsequent maintenance of sex and recombination isn't easily explained by Darwinian evolution. Why is sex a success, despite all its disadvantages? Read More ›