total number of peripheral microtubules in flagella is
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The configuration of microtubules in a flagellum or cilium, comprise a ring of nine equally distributed couplets surrounding two central singlets.
Symbol: 9 + 2.
Cilia and Flagella:
Structure and Movement:
Swimming is the style of movement propagated by sperm and by many protozoans.
Some follow velocities approaching 1 mm/s by the beating of cilia and flagella, and by flexible membrane extensions of the cell.
The size of Cilia and flagella range in length from a microns to higher than 2 mm by insect flagella.C and flagella are identical.
However , they are given nomenclature before study of their structures.
Generally cells contains one or more number of long flagella, whereas ciliated cells have many short cilia.
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