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Q. Arrangement of microtubules in a flagellum and a centriole is respectively

Cell : The Unit of Life

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A centriole possesses a whorl of nine peripheral fibrils. Fibrils are absent in the centre. The arrangement is, therefore, called 9 + 0. Flagellum contains an axoneme of a peripheral doublet fibrils and 2 central singlet fibrils. This arrangement is called 9 + 2 or 11 stranded