- A
flagellum (/fləˈdʒɛləm/; pl.:
flagella) (Latin for 'whip' or 'scourge') is a
hairlike appendage that
protrudes from
certain plant and
animal sperm cells...
- more
distinct types of
flagella -
tinsel or "decorated", and whiplash, in
various combinations.
Tinsellated (straminipilous)
flagella have
lateral filaments...
- The
evolution of
flagella is of
great interest to
biologists because the
three known varieties of
flagella – (eukaryotic, bacterial, and archaeal) each...
-
flagellate is a cell or
organism with one or more whip-like
appendages called flagella. The word
flagellate also
describes a
particular construction (or level...
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using motile cilia or
flagella.
Motile cells are
absent in
conifers and
flowering plants.[citation needed]
Eukaryotic flagella are more
complex than those...
- protozoans, are
motile and can
generate movement using flagella,
cilia or pseudopods.
Cells which use
flagella for
movement are
usually referred to as flagellates...
- with
spirillum being rigid with
external flagella, and
spirochetes being flexible with
internal flagella. A
spirillum (plural spirilla) is a
rigid spiral...
- and
usually cup-shaped. A key
feature of the
genus is its two
anterior flagella, each as long as the other. The
flagellar microtubules may each be dis****embled...
- Many
eukaryotes have long
slender motile cytoplasmic projections,
called flagella, or
multiple shorter structures called cilia.
These organelles are variously...
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general Corynebacterium and Mycobacterium, but none of them have
flagella. The tuft of
flagella is seen
arising from the
concave of
basal body of S.ruminantium...
