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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