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A Beautiful Visualization of Flagellar Motor Mechanics and Assembly

June 24, 2012 Posted by Jonathan M under Intelligent Design
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3 Responses to A Beautiful Visualization of Flagellar Motor Mechanics and Assembly

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    JoeCoderJune 24, 2012 at 12:31 pm

    Chrome 19, Windows XP, no page zoom.

    The right side of the video is cropped off. http://i.imgur.com/uIRWN.png

    has a width of 520px, but the iframe embed code copied from YouTube is 640. Try using this embed code to make it fit:

    <iframe width=”520″ height=”390″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/Ey7Emmddf7Y” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe>

    Fiddle with the width/height if it’s not exactly right.

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    JoeCoderJune 24, 2012 at 12:37 pm

    Wow, a great video!

  3. 3
    bornagain77June 25, 2012 at 12:44 pm

    A few notes:

    Bacterial Flagellum – A Sheer Wonder Of Intelligent Design – video
    http://www.metacafe.com/watch/3994630

    Biologist Howard Berg at Harvard calls the Bacterial Flagellum
    “the most efficient machine in the universe.”

    The Bacterial Flagellum – Truly An Engineering Marvel! – Jonathan M. – December 2010
    http://www.uncommondescent.com.....ng-marvel/

    Bacterial Flagellum: Visualizing the Complete Machine In Situ
    Excerpt: Electron tomography of frozen-hydrated bacteria, combined with single particle averaging, has produced stunning images of the intact bacterial flagellum, revealing features of the rotor, stator and export apparatus.
    http://www.sciencedirect.com/s.....220602286X

    Electron Microscope Photograph of Flagellum Hook-Basal Body
    http://www.skeptic.com/eskepti.....gure03.jpg

    “Since the flagellum is so well designed and beautifully constructed by an ordered assembly pathway, even I, who am not a creationist, get an awe-inspiring feeling from its ‘divine’ beauty.,, if the flagellum evolved from a primitive form, …where are the remnants of its ancestor? Why don’t we see any intermediate or simpler forms of flagella than what they are today? How was it possible that the flagella have evolved without leaving traces in history?”
    - Shin-Ichi Aizawa – What Is Essential for Flagella Assembly? – 2009 – Pili and Flagella – Chpt. 6

    Bacterial Flagella – More Perfect Than We Imagined – Optimization of Molecule Counting – video
    http://fora.tv/2010/11/03/More.....chapter_12

    moreover:

    Persistent dynamic entanglement from classical motion: How bio-molecular machines can generate non-trivial quantum states – November 2011
    Excerpt: We also show how conformational changes can be used by an elementary machine to generate entanglement even in unfavorable conditions. In biological systems, similar mechanisms could be exploited by more complex molecular machines or motors.
    http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.2126

    videos with inspirational music added:

    Molecular Machinery of Life – video
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ4N0iSeR8U

    Molecular Biology Animations – Demo Reel
    http://www.metacafe.com/w/5915291/

    DNA – Replication, Wrapping & Mitosis – video (notes in description)
    http://vimeo.com/33882804

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