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You can compare flagellum to a tail or to a leg or arm. This is because it is the cells ways of moving around.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 13y agoFlagella are whip-like projections.
They help in moving the cell and changing its direction.
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∙ 11y agoThe pseudopod is said to be similar to the flagella because they are both extensions to the organism.
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∙ 12y agoflagella propel a cell forward.
the natural comparison could be the tail of a fish, and the mechanical comparison could be a propeller on a ship.
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What does Flagella in a cell do?
The flagella is a whip-like organelle that helps the cell move.
What are the whip like strands on dinoflagellates?
Flagella
What type of movement euglena have pseudopodia flagella or cilia?
Euglina has flagella. Paramesium has cilia. Amoeba has pseudopods
Which organelles is a single whip like propeller?
Flagella
How do plant-like protist move?
flagella or cilia.
What is the whip-like tail called?
Flagella. Flagella Flagellum (flagella is the plural form) flagella
How do flagella move?
Flagella move by flicking like little whips or by pulling themselves. Smooth flagella move by flicking and hairy flagella move by pulling.
Is flagella a virus?
Flagella is not a virus. It is a tail-like protrusion of a cell body. A sperm cell has a flagella which is integral to itd locomotion.
What does Flagella in a cell do?
The flagella is a whip-like organelle that helps the cell move.
In animal-like protists the short threadlike structures that extend from the cell membrane are called what?
it is either cilia or flagella
What do flagella enable prokatyotic cell to do?
Flagella are like little rudders, they allow them to move around.
What is flagella like in the city?
a resturant
Longer whip like structures used for movement?
Cilia and flagella both have a whip like movement to help it's cell move. Cyberchief If this answer helped you and you appreciate the fact that time was taken out of somebody's personal day to write the answer to this question, please support the contributor by clicking "Recommend Contributor" button below at the bottom of this answer box.
Where can flagella be found?
Flagellum, (plural flagella) is mainly found on sperm, its the tail.
Whip like structure on a cell?
flagella
What are the whip like strands on dinoflagellates?
Flagella
How is flagella like a flag?
Bacterial flagella? Would wind be analogous to the protons hitting the "motor" (which is analogous to flag), causing it to move?
