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Answer for the clue "Motile types have flagella ", 11 letters:
eubacterium

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Eubacterium could be either a Gram-positive or Gram-negative bacteria genus in the family Eubacteriaceae . These bacteria are characterised by a rigid cell wall . They may either be motile or non-motile. If motile, they have a flagellum . A typical flagellum ...

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n. a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella [syn: eubacteria , true bacteria ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context microbiology English) Any bacterium considered to be within the obsolete taxonomic subkingdom Eubacteria

Usage examples of eubacterium.

On Earth, early microbial life split into eubacteria and archaebacteria, and all multicellular organisms arose from the archaebacterial lineage.

There were programmed bacteria of every size and shape, eubacteria, spherical cocci, and spirochetes with their whiplike tails.

The Martian organisms must be something else again, as different from the eubacteria and archaebacteria as those two great lineages are from each other.

After all, we share much of our genome with eubacteria, even though the evolutionary divergence between the eubacteria and archaebacteria occurred very soon after the origin of life on Earth.

Perhaps the arrival of an advanced form of Martian life on Earth caused some kind of evolutionary pressure that initiated the split between eubacteria and archaebacteria.

Martian organisms have some property that drove the split between eubacteria and archaebacteria.