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Locomotion vs Mastigoneme - What's the difference?

locomotion | mastigoneme |

As nouns the difference between locomotion and mastigoneme

is that locomotion is the ability to move from place to place, or the act of doing so while mastigoneme is one of the lateral "hairs" found covering the flagella of heterokont and cryptophyte algae, believed to assist in locomotion.

locomotion

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The ability to move from place to place, or the act of doing so.
  • (biology) Self-powered motion by which a whole organism changes its location through walking, running, jumping, crawling, swimming or flying.

    • Derived terms

    * locomotive * locomotor ----

    mastigoneme

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia mastigoneme)
  • One of the lateral "hairs" found covering the flagella of heterokont and cryptophyte algae, believed to assist in locomotion.