Distinguish cilia and flagella

Answer 1

Cilia are tiny hair like structures that cover a cell and help it to move, move liquid that is around it or to clean something. A flagellum is a whip-like tail, usually cells only have one, occasionally two, and help the cell to move. Cilia and flagellum are only found on animal cells and not all animal cells have them.

Answer 2

Cilia are short, numerous hair-like structures that cover the cell surface and are involved in movement and sensing the environment. Flagella, on the other hand, are longer whip-like appendages that are typically found in fewer numbers and are mainly used for cell movement.

Answer 3

Well pretty much the only difference is the length between them

They are virtually the same... However, although cilia and flagella are the same, they were given different names before their structures were studied. Typically, cells possess one or two long flagella, whereas ciliated cells have many short cilia. For example, the mammalian spermatozoon has a single flagellum, the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas has two flagella, and the unicellular protozoan Paramecium is covered with a few thousand cilia, which are used both to move and to bring in food particles. In mammals, many epithelial cells are ciliated in order to sweep materials across the tissue surface. For instance, huge numbers of cilia (more than 107/mm2) cover the surfaces of mammalian respiratory passages (the nose, pharynx, and trachea), where they dislodge and expel particulate matter that collects in the mucus secretions of these tissues.

Answer 4

Among human cells, what distinguishes cilia from flagella are, size, number, and pattern of movement. human cilia are shorter and more numerous than flagella. Under low magnification, cilia look like timy hairs. The cilia move in a rythmic, coordinated way to push substances along the cell surface. In the lining of the respiratory tract, the movement of cilia keeps contaminated mucus on cell surfaces moving toward the throat where it can be swallowed. In the lining of the female reproductive tract, cilia keep ovum moving toward the uterus. Flagella are single, long structures in the only type of human cell that has this feature: the human sperm cell. A sperm cells flagellum moves like the tail of an eel to allow the cell to "swim" toward the human sex cell. Anatomy & Physiology 7th Edition Patton Thibodeau, chapter 3 page 83.

Answer 5

Cilia and flagella are structurally similar but differentiated based on their function and length. Cilia are short, and there are usually hundreds of cilia per cell. Flagella are longer, and there are far fewer per cell, usually one to eight. Also, the motion of flagella is often undulating, whereas the motile cilia often perform a more complicated 3D motion with a power and recovery stroke.

Answer 6

The cilia and flagella are two movement mechanisms used in different bacteria. Cilia is many of little "hairs" that surround the bacterium, where as flagella is one or more large tail(s) coming out of one part of the bacterium.

You can type "cilia" or "flagella" into Google images for pictures.

Answer 7

difference between cytoskeleton and microtubule

Answer 8

In terms of structure,flagella is long and not more than two situated at the TOP of an organism e.g while cilia is a hairy-like structure found round the body of an organism e.g paramecium

Answer 9

Cilia differs from flagella in terms of the structure and size. Cilia are small tiny structures which look like hairs while flagella are usually long and looks like a whip.

Answer 10

Cilia: short, hairlike

beating motion

Flagella: longer, whiplike

back and forth lashing motion