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D'Arcy Thompson's famous comparison of protistan cells to Plateau's surfaces of revolution-shapesof minimal area with radialsymmetry around a single axis.
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Cilia are nucleated, anchored and aligned at the plasma membrane by basal bodies, which are cylindrical microtubule-based structures with ninefold radialsymmetry.