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Flagellum

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Flagella Summary
531 words, approx. 2 pages
Flagella are tiny, hair-like appendages on the surface of many cell types that provide either the motile force for movement or that serve as sensory receptors for information about the cell's external world. There are two very different kinds of...
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Flagellum
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Hairlike structure that acts mainly as an organelle of movement in the cells of many living organisms. Characteristic of the protozoan group Mastigophora, flagella also occur on the sex cells of algae, fungi (&see; fungus), mosses, and slime molds....
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Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA
Is Mother Nature intelligent enough for the flagellum?
03/03/2005: 683 words, approx. 2 pages
Skeptical about the claims of "intelligent design"? To try and win you over, professor Michael Behe would show you a diagram of the biological marvel that is the flagellum. Perhaps you were shooting spitballs when your biology teacher covered the flagellum and other...
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Science News
Protein switch curls bacterial propellers.(research on flagellum activity)
02/07/1998: 628 words, approx. 2 pages
Researchers have used high-resolution images of bacterial flagella to identify the mechanism that allows a flagellum to change its shape. Protein strands in the flagella switch past each other to form a new arrangement. Without its flagella, many a bacterium would truly be...
 


 

Flagellum

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