Q.Name the flagellation found in the zoospore of Oedogonium.

Step 1. During asexual reproduction in Oedogonium, a vegetative cell functions as a zoosporangium and releases a single large zoospore.

Step 2. This zoospore is not simply bi- or multi-flagellate in a scattered pattern — its flagella are arranged in a specific ring around its colourless, beak-like anterior end.

Step 3. This ring-of-flagella arrangement has its own technical name: stephanokont flagellation. …

Recall the named flagellar arrangement associated specifically w …

• Confusing stephanokont (ring of flagella) with other flagellar terms like 'akontous' (no flagella) or simple 'biflagellate'/'multiflagellate' descriptions that don't capture the ring arrangement. …