Question

total number of peripheral microtubules in flagella is

Answer 1

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.