Biology, asked by neeraja2545, 1 year ago

what is the internal pattern of flagella?

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Answered by Taufeeq111

Bacterial flagella are long, thin (about 20 nm), whip like appendages that move the bacteria towards nutrients and other attractants. Flagella are free at one end and attached to the cell at the other end. Flagellum can never be seen directly with the light microscope but only after staining with special flagella stain increase their diameter.

Flagella are helical shaped structure which is composed of subunits of a protein called flagellin. The wider region at the base of the flagellum is called hook. It is different in structure than that of the filament. Hook connects filament to the motor portion of the flagellum called basal body.

neeraja2545: your answer is not suitable for this question because i need about internal pattern of flagella not about flagella.

Taufeeq111: ok

Taufeeq111: Internal structure. ... The so-called "9 + 2" structure is characteristic of the core of the eukaryotic flagellum called an axoneme. At the base of a eukaryotic flagellum is a basal body, "blepharoplast" or kinetosome, which is the microtubule organizing center for flagellar microtubules and is about 500 nanometers long.

Taufeeq111: hope it helps u

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