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Basal body

A basal body, basal granule, or kinetosome, and in older literature blepharoplast, is a protein complex structure found at the base of a cilium, a eukaryotic flagellum or a bacterial flagellum. The basal body was named by Theodor Wilhelm Engelmann in 1880.

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