A flagellum (plural: flagella) is a long, whip-like structure that helps some single celled organisms move. It is composed of microtubules. They help propel...

in structure to flagella, but typically shorter and in much larger numbers. They have a different pattern of waving than do flagella. Cilia occur in all...

of flagellated zoospores, whiplash and tinsel or "decorated". Whiplash flagella are straight, to power the zoospore through its medium. There is also the...

cilia and flagella together make up a group of organelles known as undulipodia. Eukaryotic cilia are structurally identical to eukaryotic flagella, although...

Flagellates are cells with one or more whip-like organelles called flagella. Some cells in animals may be flagellate, for instance the spermatozoa of most...

(many archaea), and heterotrophy (amoeba). Some unicellular organisms have flagella, little tails they use for locomotion, or lobopods, extensions of the cellular...

Spirochaetes are bacteria. They have flagella, which run lengthwise between the cell wall and outer membrane. The flagella cause a twisting motion which moves...

Ginkgo have flagella similar to those in animals. However, higher plants (including gymnosperms and flowering plants) lack the flagella and centrioles...

eukaryotic cells that: have a single flagellum, or are amoebae with no flagella. The unikonts include opisthokonts (animals, fungi, and related forms)...

are mostly algae. In one stage of their life cycle they have two unequal flagella. They include both single-celled types and brown algae (seaweeds such as...

is a long chain of proteins, such as those found in hair, muscle, or in flagella. http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss4cell.html This short article...

material is free in the cytoplasm. Flagella/Pili: These structures are not present in all prokaryotes. The flagella and pili extends from the surface of...

cells. It is involved in cell division and in the formation of cilia and flagella. Centrioles are not found in vascular plants and in most fungi. Most centrioles...

oxygen and do not create spores. All members of the genus can move and have flagella on both ends with or without sheaths. Recent phylogenies have been made...

bacterium. The cells are coccoid or rod shaped. They can move with one or two flagella. They are aerobic, they need oxygen. There are ten species: Planomicrobium...

pocket. At the edge of the pocket there are typically two slightly unequal flagella. Some may exhibit mixotrophy, using mixed sources of energy. Khan H, Archibald...

photosynthetic phytoplankton. The cells typically have two slightly unequal flagella and a unique organelle called a haptonema. This is superficially similar...

gram-positive. The cells are short rods or coccoid. They can move by using polar flagella. Planomicrobium chinense doesn't form spores. "Planomicrobium". LPSN. "Planomicrobium...

single-celled members of the group, and the presumed ancestor, have two flagella. The TSAR supergroup is a group of Bikonts containing telonemia (T), stramenopiles...

thought to be a secondary endosymbiosis between a bikont (cell with two flagella) and a red alga. This union led to plastids containing chlorophyll c. In...

non-sporeforming, slightly curved rod-shaped and motile by means of multiple flagella near the end of the cell. L1-82T (= DSM 14610T = NCIMB 13810T) is the type...

using oxygen. The bacterium does not form endospores. It has one or two flagella. Paul Vos, George Garrity, Dorothy Jones, Noel R. Krieg, Wolfgang Ludwig...

The simplest propulsive systems evolved in microorganisms. Cilia and flagella are used. Swimming has evolved a number of times in more complex life-forms...

of the three locomotion modes of unicellular organisms (together with flagella and cilia). Pseudopods can also capture prey by phagocytosis. Pseudopedia...

DNA-containing granule inside the single mitochondrion at the base of the cell's flagella (the basal body). The kinetoplastids were first defined by Honigberg in...

Therefore, the name (Latin: urea). The cells are coccoid. It has some flagella. Sporosarcina ureae is heterotrophic. It is aerobic, it needs oxygen. Sporosarcina...

matter. Both zoospores and gametes of the chytrids are mobile by their flagella, one whiplash per individual. Some chytrid species are known to kill amphibians...

protects the cell and enables cells to move (using structures such as flagella and cilia). It helps transport inside the cytoplasm (the movement of vesicles...

respiration with oxygen. The bacterium does not form endospores. It has one flagella. Planomicrobium flavidum belongs to the gram-positive Firmicutes. "Planomicrobium"...

(causes 'fish kills'). The main type of chrysophyte cell has two specialized flagella. The active, "feathered" flagellum points toward the moving direction....

Most Amoebozoa lack flagella and more generally do not form microtubule-supported structures except during mitosis. However, flagella occur among some archamoebae...

unicellular and colonial flagellates, usually but not always with two flagella per cell, as well as various colonial, coccoid, and filamentous forms....

although some euglenids get up to 500 µm long. Most Euglenozoa have two flagella, parallel to one another in a pocket-like structure. In some there is a...

The red algae are a distinct group. They have eukaryotic cells without flagella and centrioles. Their chloroplasts lack external endoplasmic reticulum...

diarrhea and food poisoning. It is spiral shaped, and moves by using its flagella. Campylobacteriosis is a gastrointestinal tract infection caused by Campylobacter...

dysentery. Other genera of archamoebae live in freshwater habitats, and have flagella. Most have a single nucleus and flagellum, but the giant amoeba Pelomyxa...

pigment, which is known as phycobiliprotein. Glaucophyte mitochondria and flagella (if present) are similar to forms found in some green algae. Only 13 species...

some fungus-like types. They are unified by the possession of two unequal flagella at a stage in their life-cycle. They include brown, golden, yellow-green...

epithelium enclosing a loose sheet of cells. The epithelial cells bear flagella, which the animal uses to help it creep along the seafloor. Between these...

cells also have flagella called cilia, but these flagella do not rotate at the bottom. Instead, they bend so that the tip of the flagella moves in a circle...

which gets them into a host's cell. They do not have structures such as flagella or pseudopods except in certain gamete stages. Body movement is by flexing...

grow). They are rod-shaped and are motile, moving using a single or many flagella (tails), except for Burkholderia mallei, which is not motile. Some bacteria...

nematocysts; some live as plasmodia (multinucleate forms); some have two flagella; photosynthetic dinoflagellates contain a "bewildering array" of plastid...

nucleus, its membrane, chromosomes and centromeres; the Golgi body; the flagella or cilia; the intracellular membranes. Some of these may also have had...

microtubules), and dynein (which produces the beating of motile cilia and flagella). These proteins are far more complex than any molecular machines that...

look the same and can vary in size and shape. Acinetobacter do not have a flagella, a tail-like structure used by many bacteria to move around. They are immobile...

Some Chlorophyta are single cells. Most species have a single-celled stage in their life cycles that swim using flagella. Haematococcus pluvialis...

Bradyrhizobium species are Gram-negative, rod-shaped (also called bacilli) with a flagella (like a tail) to help them move through their environment. Gram-negative...

Yellow-green algae Examples of xanthophytes (repair the unequal flagella in the cells) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Clade: Diaphoretickes...

cones MeSH A11.284.180.285 – fimbriae, bacterial MeSH A11.284.180.290 – flagella MeSH A11.284.180.290.835 – sperm tail MeSH A11.284.180.565 – microvilli...