
The SciencesOctober 1, 1974
How Cilia Move
The hairlike organelles that propel swimming cells or move liquids over fixed cells are composed of sheaves of nlicrotubules. The cilia beat when the microtubules, powered by ATP, slide past one another

How Cilia Move
The hairlike organelles that propel swimming cells or move liquids over fixed cells are composed of sheaves of nlicrotubules. The cilia beat when the microtubules, powered by ATP, slide past one another

Cilia
In a wide variety of organisms from both the plant and animal kingdoms these tiny hairlike projections have the same basic structural plan: two long filaments surrounded by nine others