The flagellum is a lash-like appendage that protrudes from the cell body. The Flagellum functions as a rotary device for cells. In the analysis of the flagella there are many different proteins that make up the flagellar structure. The focus of this study is to see how the inner and outer dynein arms are present throughout each eukaryotic species. The prediction was that even though these species do not possess the physical structure of flagella, they still will show the presence of inner and outer dynein arms. A series of bioinformatics techniques such as Blast, python, Clustal, and NCBI were used to analyze to see what was the percentage of inner and outer dynein genes were present in each flagellated and non-flagellated species. The results indicated that 99% of non-flagellated species showed the presence of at least 60% or higher of inner and outer dynein arm genes. Further that the highest presence of species that is non-flagellated showed a presence of 86% of the presence of inner and outer flagellated genes. These findings are significant because it suggests that although cells that do not show flagellated structures on the cell, it still can possess the presence flagellum genes.
