flagellar
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- adjective
- /fləˈdʒɛlər/
- Specialized
- Shibata and Ueda (2008) used Shibata and Fujimoto's (2005) theory to explain the effect of CheR on flagellar motor rotation.
- flagellar motor
- flagellar motor rotation
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Examples
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The flagellar structure of the sperm cell allows it to swim towards the egg.
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And indeed, one of the things that that had been studied previously was the flagellar biosynthesis pathway.
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Although it is beneficial to the cells, rapid switching is also accompanied by chatter (i.e., rapid fluctuations in the rotation of the flagellar motors), especially in a noisy environment.
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The robustness of chemotaxis to temporal changes was initially attributed to the flagellar motor's possessing a mechanism to prevent chatter (Morton-Firth and Bray 1998).
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Researchers studied the flagellar movement of eels to understand their swimming efficiency.
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Many bacteria use a flagellar system to propel themselves through liquid environments.
Synonyms
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Having whip-like tails used to move
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Having one or more long thin tails that help the cell move
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word flagellar comes from the Latin flagellum, which means 'whip', so imagine a tiny whip that a cell waves to swim. That's why flagellar describes a whip-like tail or structure that helps cells or tiny organisms move.