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blepharoplast

[′blef·ə·rō‚plast]
(microbiology)
A cytoplasmic granule bearing a bacterial flagellum.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Blepharoplast

 

(also parabasal body), a kinetoplast or cellular organelle located near the base of the flagellum in flagellates of the families Trypanosomatidae and Bodonidae. It contains desoxyribonucleic acid. It is sometimes called the basal granule.

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