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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Movement of a motile organism using the earth's gravity for orientation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The orientation or locomotion of cells or of organisms in relation to the direction of the earth (or to gravity).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biology A living creature's ability to move by
orienting itself bygravitational forces .
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Examples
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Sexual isolation caused by selection for positive and negative phototaxis and geotaxis in Drosophila pseudoobscura.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Sexual isolation caused by selection for positive and negative phototaxis and geotaxis in Drosophila pseudoobscura.
Yet another controversy - the Intelligent Deceiver - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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Flies are exercised by a mechanized platform, known as the Power Tower, that rapidly, repeatedly, induces their innate instinct for negative geotaxis.
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