MEDICAL PHYSIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The tail moves with whip-like movements back and forth to propel the sperm towards the egg. The sperm have to reach the uterus and the fallopian tube in order to fertilize a woman’s egg.

Detailed explanation-2: -The flagellum, also called the sperm “tail”, is a slender lash-like appendage that protrudes from the cell body. By beating their tails, sperm cells swim to the female reproductive cell (oocyte) and fertilise it. A bundle of microtubules that span the entire length of the tail is critical for flagellar beating.

Detailed explanation-3: -The motile tail of a sperm is a long flagellum, whose central axoneme emanates from a basal body situated just posterior to the nucleus.

Detailed explanation-4: -A sperm is the male reproductive cell. The full name for a sperm that has a single flagellum (or “tail") to propel it along is a spermatozoon. Unlike this motile sperm, when a sperm lacks a flagellum and is non-motile, it is termed a spermatium.