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Cilia are slender, microscopic, hair-like structures or organelles that extend from the surface of nearly all mammalian cells (multiple or single). They are primordial. The ciliary apparatus is connected to cell cycle progression and proliferation, and cilia play a vital part in human and animal development and in everyday life.
They are motile and designed either to move the cell itself or to move substances over or around the cell. The primary purpose of cilia in mammalian cells is to move fluid, mucous, or cells over their surface. Cilia and flagella have the same internal structure.The major difference is in their length. Cilia and flagella move because of the interactions of a set of microtubules inside.ote the numerous cilia projecting from the cell membrane (cm). Basal bodies control the direction of movement of the cilia. This can be shown experimentally. Centrioles control the direction of cilia or flagella movement. Paramecium have parallel rows of cilia all aligned so that they will beat in the same direction.