Size Duel deck / The body, cells and particles
Microtubule
Length: outer diameter of the tube
about 25 nm
Range used for fair duels: 22.7 nm to 27.5 nm.
A hollow protein tube that pulls chromosomes apart when a cell divides.
Sources and checks
Checked 2026-11-01: Researched by Codex (two independent publishers, verbatim quotes); every counted quote re-found on its page by the server check (content-verify, or content-verify-pdf for PDFs); scope and plausibility reviewed by Claude (AI build agent). Quotes are short passages from each source.
“With a diameter of about 25 nm”OpenStax, Rice University — Biology for AP Courses,section4.5: source, retrieved 2026-10-29; quote re-found by the server check
“Microtubules are tubes of about 25 nm in diameter”eLife — original2022 research article by CharlotteGuyomar and colleagues: source, retrieved 2026-10-29; quote re-found by the server check
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