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That is the year Michael Behe came face-to-face with his own difficult scientific problem: the evolution of the bacterial flagellum, a tail-like rotor that aids in cellular locomotion.

Paul Wallace: Intelligent Design Is Dead: A Christian Perspective Paul Wallace 2012

That is the year Michael Behe came face-to-face with his own difficult scientific problem: the evolution of the bacterial flagellum, a tail-like rotor that aids in cellular locomotion.

Paul Wallace: Intelligent Design Is Dead: A Christian Perspective Paul Wallace 2012

Dynein is a motor protein that is found in flagella, the long tail-like structure that projects from certain types of cells like sperm to help the cell move.

Nested Universe - Singularity Blog, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Cosmology, Science and Technology 2008

The planet has a scorpion tail-like half-ring in orbit, although this is not visible in either The Plan or Razor.

Archive 2010-03-01 Adam Whitehead 2010

The planet has a scorpion tail-like half-ring in orbit, although this is not visible in either The Plan or Razor.

The Twelve Colonies of Humanity Adam Whitehead 2010

For instance, cells in the airways may be helped to move their tail-like cilia to push mucus along.

Smoking is a Turn-On for Some Genes | Impact Lab 2007

Diatoms have non-growing siliceous shells and thus need silicate for growth while dinoflagellates move by the action of tail-like projections called flagella.

General description of the Arctic biota 2009

With ambition, im - agination, outgrowth, nutriment, with everything crammed belligerent - ly inside itself, its fibres breed mon - opoly — a tail-like, wedge-shaped engine with the secret of expansion, fused with intensive heat to the color of the set - ting sun and stiff.

Marianne Moore and Revolution : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Simple, plain mushrooms are my favorite, but shiitake can make it exotic, and enoki, with its little bulbous head and long tail-like stem, shaped like well, you know, is downright erotic.

Settling Down - Green Tea Risotto with Sauteed Mushrooms and Pan-Seared Tofu 2005

Simple, plain mushrooms are my favorite, but shiitake can make it exotic, and enoki, with its little bulbous head and long tail-like stem, shaped like well, you know, is downright erotic.

Archive 2005-08-01 2005