What does cilia do in cells?

Answer 1

Mucus in the airways helps trap foreign particles to protect the respiratory system. Cilia are tiny beating hairs that sweep the mucus up to your throat where it is either coughed out or swallowed by the acids in your stomach. The cilia are like a janitor who always sweeps up the messes. If these are destroyed, as can occur with long term smoking, the whole thing comes to a halt and you then have to try to cough and pull up this now thickened mess.

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Answer 2

This is easy to understand, but difficult to explain in words. This is some thing like the wings of the birds. They push the air down wards only. When the wings move upwards, they move in some what wave like pattern. So that they do not push the air upward. Like that the cilia push the mucus and particles out wards, towards your pharynx.

Answer 3

In general, cilia cells act as transporters, almost like an assembly track. In mammals, there are cilia in the trachea that pull foreign material out of the lungs.

Also, it's a good idea to add that cilia ON cells means the cells have hair like projections on the outer surface of their cell wall, in "mobile" cells, they work to allow the cell to move itself instead of moving other substances.

Answer 4

Cilia Is Like Little Hairs On The Outside Of a Cell. It Grants The Cell Locomotion, Which Is The Ability To Move, In And Around Water.

Answer 5

It increases the absorbtion area of the intestine.

Answer 6

Cilia play role in locomotion by rhythmic lashing movement.

Answer 7

Cilia moves liquid past the surface of the cell.

Answer 8

Cilia and flagella help the cell to 'swim' in the body and move around. They're like tails or tentacles.