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A flagellate is a cell or organism with one or more whip-like appendages called flagella. The word flagellate also describes a particular construction characteristic of many prokaryotes and eukaryotes
"Flagellata" from Ernst Haeckel's Artforms of Nature, 1904
Green algae (Chlamydomonas)
Flagellum
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A flagellum is a hair-like appendage that protrudes from certain plant and animal sperm cells, from fungal spores, and from a wide range of microorganisms to provide motility. Many protists with flage
Flagellate
…A 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 of organization) characteristic of many prokaryotes and eukaryotes and their…
Longitudinal section through the flagella area in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. In the cell apex is the basal body that is the anchoring site for a flagellum. Basal bodies originate from and have a substructure similar to that of centrioles, with nine peripheral microtubule triplets (see structure at bottom center of image).
The "9+2" structure is visible in this cross-section micrograph of an axoneme.
Multiple flagella in lophotrichous arrangement on surface of Helicobacter pylori