EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Euglena move by using a flagellum, a long whip-like structure that functions as a small motor. The flagellum, which is located on the cell’s anterior (front) end, twirls to propel it through the water.

Detailed explanation-2: -Euglena move by a flagellum (plural flagella), which is a long whip-like structure that acts like a little motor. The flagellum is located on the anterior (front) end, and twirls in such a way as to pull the cell through the water. It is attached at an inward pocket called the reservoir.

Detailed explanation-3: -Demembranated flagella from Euglena gracilis consisted of three distinct components: a 9 + 2 axoneme of microtubules, an extensive surface coating of long and short mastigonemes and a lattice-like axial fibre known as the paraflagellar rod.

Detailed explanation-4: -The flagella have a whip-like appearance that helps to propel a cell through the liquid. Some special flagella are used in few organisms as sensory organs that can sense changes in pH and temperature. They are filamentous structures found in archaea, bacteria, and eukaryotes.

Detailed explanation-5: -They possess two flagellae, one long, one short, that can allow the organisms to move. Euglena are also able to move by means of changing its shape (see video links). Outside the cell membrane is a flexible, protein-based structure called a pellicle.