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Cillia and Flagella

cillia
 Cillia are short hair like structure
 Length of cilia having 5_10Um
 They having short,thin microscopic hair like structure
 They are whip like
 They occur only in eukaryoyic cells
 They are located throughout the cell
 They have pendulam+coordinated movement
 They have many in numbers(40,000)
 Its function is captuaring,locomotion and protection
 For example .the unicellular protozoan paramecium is covered with a few thousand
cillia
FLAGELLA
Structure
 Flagella are long whip like structure
Length
 150Um(micrometer)
Occurance
 Both in eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells
Location
 Mostly at one end of the cell
Movement
 Having undulating independence movement
Numbers
 Few n numbers(1_8)
Function
 Locomotion
Structural organization
 Originate from basal bodies inn cytoplasm
axoneme+spiral sheath of cytoplasm +membrane

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