Why Do Bacteria Move Like Vibrating Chaos Snakes?

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Bacterial flagella are very hard to spot in our footage, but we see evidence of them in almost every single one of our videos. The question is, how do they work, and are they different from the other flagella we've discussed?

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SOURCES:
https://academic.oup.com/femsre/article/24/3/225/561657
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/flagellum/
https://www.pnas.org/content/112/32/E4381?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=b8f98c7f196038be2565cfdf4bc0546e1e1b63a0-1608160726-0-AfcaBfM5KkKXF2wd4Z4K-m13AKZ7UJ_qvTHgePtpqjw2AIlVMFcmztmgRToPi6AjwBcsSL7Lj9wOWqtrGQYis0K-JWq4swexVnH2RpFxVUVIMBtoohzOjxbsdf9SGYzN6rENz_OnEhlFLrsyyVEjcdimSWpbzo5E7O1a6wnjltDgc5Suw-q-t1CYZ-UFeTo0LlrkGRxcDGuvrIzycDaBE05Wv0Bw8uO47PvG4dfhcM7rWUoNU3zNKMXdISInCcTJrUZqYh2oFeGw84gRmF54vBBtVhfuRWFKvOTIi7ZbuYhxNxWv91WHm6rFLCxdmNE7ANXnWC3UFej4ks5je8BiGZI
https://www.britannica.com/science/flagellum
https://jb.asm.org/content/182/10/2793

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