EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -A few forms can move by gliding or floating, although the vast majority move by means of “whips” or small “hairs” known as flagella or cilia, respectively. (Those organelles give their names to informal groups-flagellates and ciliates-of protists.)

Detailed explanation-2: -Tiny hairlike organelles called cilia cover many cells from single-celled microorganisms to mammalian tissue. Motile cilia beat actively generating cilia-driven flows.

Detailed explanation-3: -Some animal-like protists move by using cilia. Cilia are hair-like projections that move with a wave-like pattern. The cilia move like tiny oars to sweep food toward the organism or to move the organism through water.

Detailed explanation-4: -The ciliates are protists that move by using cilia. Cilia are thin, very small tail-like projections that extend outward from the cell body. Cilia beat back and forth, moving the protist along. Paramecium has cilia that propel it. The sporozoans are protists that produce spores, such as the toxoplasma.

Detailed explanation-5: -Cilia are thin, hair-like projections that extend outward from the cell membrane of the single-celled bodies of ciliate protists. These hair-like cilia move back and forth and in doing so, propel the organism forward or backward to enable them to move.