Cilia and Flagella are complex filamentous cytoplasmic structures protruding through a cell wall.
They are minute, especially differentiated appendices of the cell.
Flagella wriggle like eels. They generate waves that pass along their length, usually from base to tip at constant amplitude.
Thus the movement of water by a flagellum is parallel to its axis while a cilium moves water perpendicular to its axis and, hence, perpendicular to the surface of the cell. The axoneme is connected with the basal body which is an intracellular granule lying in the cell cortex and which originates from the centrioles.
Each axoneme is filled with ciliary matrix, in which are embedded two central singlet microtubules, each with the 13 protofilaments and nine outer pairs of microtubules, called doublets. This recurring motif is known as the 9 + 2 array.