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A flagellum (pronounced /fləˈdʒɛləm/, plural: flagella) is a tail-like structure that projects from the cell body of certain prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, and functions in locomotion. Three quite distinct types of flagella have so far been distinguished; bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic.

• Bacterial flagella are helical filaments that rotate like screws. They provide two of several kinds of bacterial motility.
• Archaeal flagella are superficially similar to bacterial flagella, but are different in many details and considered non-homologous.
• Eukaryotic flagella - those of animal, plant, and protist cells - are complex cellular projections that lash back and forth.

Sometimes eukaryotic flagella are called cilia or undulipodia to emphasize their distinctiveness.

[More Info can be found by clicking this link] --GinaGaladriel 23:09, 21 April 2009 (EDT)

This set was fully released (to credit, xl and ticket markets) on National Star Wars Day, May 4th be with you.

This set is an homage to the original Star Wars trilogy, specifically:

• Overlord Virus - Darth Vader
• Colloidosome - Death Star
• Protozoic Protagonist - Luke (as a Jedi)
• Inner Space Ship - Millennium Falcon
• Superbug - Jabba the Hutt
• All-Terrain Dust Mite - AT-AT
• Hunter Virus - Boba Fett
• Royal Eukaryote - Princess Leia Organa
• Wizened Bacterium² - (Jedi Master) Yoda or Obi Wan
• Energy Flagellum - Lightsaber
• Sporozoic Smuggler - Han Solo
• Microbe Probe - Imperial Probe Droid
• Chromosomal Ray Gun - Blaster
• Not the Haploids You Were Looking For¹ - C-3PO and R2-D2
• Kid Amoeba - Luke Skywalker

¹ References a Jedi mind trick Obi Wan uses to get past some Stormtroopers in Mos Eisley on Tatooine.

² There is dissension among PackRatters whether this germ is Yoda or Obi Wan.