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BASAL BODIES

Basal bodies (also called kinetosomes) are organelles that are not membrane-bound.  All eukaryotic flagella (also called undulipodia) are underlain or attached to the cell by the basal body.  The basal body is a microtubular structure with the general formula 9(3)+0.  They are indistinguishable from centrioles.