What is an example of a flagellate?

What is an example of a flagellate?

Trypanosoma brucei
DictyochalesPedinellalesBicosoecida
Flagellate/Representative species

How do you use flagellate in a sentence?

Flagellate in a Sentence 🔉

1. Believed to be abuse, the parents’ use of punishment for their children was to flagellate them using a heavy belt.
2. American citizens feared the courts would flagellate them for vandalizing cars in Singapore leaving strap marks on their backs.

What is this flagellate?

flagellate, (subphylum Mastigophora), any of a group of protozoans, mostly uninucleate organisms, that possess, at some time in the life cycle, one to many flagella for locomotion and sensation. (A flagellum is a hairlike structure capable of whiplike lashing movements that furnish locomotion.)

Where can you find flagellate?

ail marine biotopes
Flagellates are found in ail marine biotopes from the oligotrophic open oceans to eutrophic inshore waters, mud flats, and marshland ditches. Similar biotopes in geographically distant areas are often inhabited by the same morphological species.

Is Euglena a flagellate?

Euglena, genus of more than 1,000 species of single-celled flagellated (i.e., having a whiplike appendage) microorganisms that feature both plant and animal characteristics.

How does a flagellate obtain energy?

The two major classes of flagellates are the phytoflagellates (resemble plants and obtain energy through photosynthesis and zooflagellates (resemble animals and obtain energy through feeding).

How do you pronounce flagellate?

Break ‘flagellate’ down into sounds: [FLAJ] + [UH] + [LAYT] – say it out loud and exaggerate the sounds until you can consistently produce them.

How does a flagellate move?

Bacterial flagella are helically shaped structures containing the protein flagellin. The base of the flagellum (the hook) near the cell surface is attached to the basal body enclosed in the cell envelope. The flagellum rotates in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction, in a motion similar to that of a propeller.

Which disease is caused by flagellate?

Epidemiology. The flagellate protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi is the cause of Chagas’ disease (American trypanosomiasis), a zoonotic infection of approximately 10–12 million persons and over 100 species of wild and domestic animals in the Americas.