flagellum

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For example, a regulatory gene involved in building the flagellum was also essential to the bacteria's viability.

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  1. noun Biology A long, threadlike appendage, especially a whiplike extension of certain cells or unicellular organisms that functions as an organ of locomotion.
  2. noun A whip.

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  • Consider the whiplike structure called a flagellum that propels many bacteria. —  AnalogSFF,September2008
  • For example, a regulatory gene involved in building the flagellum was also essential to the bacteria's viability. —  Media Newswire
  • Behe likes to argue (and Dembski likes to parrot) that the flagellum is irreducibly complex because if you take away a piece, it doesn't work. —  California Literary Review
  • The proteins of the flagellum are derived from proteins used in other situations, and in particular from proteins used for a bacterial secretory system. —  California Literary Review
  • And even in the case of the bacterial flagellum, there are PLENTY of unanswered questions. —  California Literary Review
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  1. Latin, diminutive of flagrum, whip.

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  1. Latin, a whip: see flagelle, n., flail, and flagellate, v.
 

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