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The Detailed System in Minute Hairs

A micro hair consists of membrane-covered fibers. The
hair's membrane is an extension of the cell membrane, for
which reason the interior end of the hair is in contact with the
interior of the cell. If you sectioned a hair in cross section and
examine it under an electron microscope, then you will see

nine rod-like structures. These tiny hairs are incomparably
smaller than the hairs on your head. It might appear impossible
for a visible human hair to contain nine tiny separate rods, but
there are indeed nine protein rods in each of the hundreds of
minute hairs at the end of a cell, itself too small to be seen with

the naked eye.
These rods are known as microtubules, each of which con-
sists of two interconnected rings. And detailed research has
shown that each of these rings is made up of 13 separate
strands!
But that is by no means the end of the details. The second

ring, attached to the first, consists of 10 separate strands. The
nine microtubules comprising the tiny hairs are made up of the
proteins known as tubulin, molecules set out like bricks laid
atop one another to form a cylindrical shape.
In books and journals about biology, biochemistry, and

genetics, and similar subjects, one will frequently come across
sentences like "protein molecules come together in specific
ways to give rise to particular shapes." Such statements avoid
stating that protein molecules are merely assemblages of un-
conscious atoms. In some way, these entities—devoid of con-
sciousness, information or free will, with no brain or ability to

plan or reason—manage to locate one another and then to act
in a regulated manner to form a cylindrical shape. Who com-