Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Growth or movement of a sessile organism toward or away from a source of light.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The growth or the bending of organisms or of parts of organisms in relation to light; heliotropism.
- noun Same as
phototaxis , 2. - noun Same as
phototropy , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Plant Physiol.) The tendency of growing plant organs to move or curve under the influence of light. In ordinary use the term is practically synonymous with
heliotropism . - noun (Microbiology) exhibiting movement in a direction toward (
positive phototropism ) or away from (negative phototropism ) a source of light.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biology the movement of a
plant towards or away fromlight
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an orienting response to light
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Examples
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Maybe there's some phototropism in there as well they seem to be moving to the shadow at the top?
Clustering of the intertidal snail Batillaria minima AYDIN 2009
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Make sure you look at the movies for morning glories twining, and corn seedling phototropism.
Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Green machines 2003
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Thus it was that the interpretations of J. Loeb (Die Tropismen, 1913) on the basis of experiments done with lower animals, estab - lished the neologist ideas of “phototropism” (orien - tation or displacement reaction in the direction of light), and of “thermotropism” (reaction directed to - wards a source of heat), to explain animal and perhaps also human behavior.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas FERNAND-LUCIEN MUELLER 1968
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Where the specific stimulus is light, the phenomenon is phototropism ( "light-turning" G).
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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Winslow Briggs has been fascinated by phototropism for more than 50 years, chipping away at the mechanism behind it in his lab at Carnegie Institution's Department of Plant Biology at Stanford University.
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Since then, the study of phototropism has been a cornerstone of plant science research.
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Since then, the study of phototropism has been a cornerstone of plant science research.
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They took photos to document phototropism in plants - how plants grow in the direction of the sun - and erosion.
unknown title 2009
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Almost 200 years ago, researchers first began to characterize plant responses to sunlight-among them, the propensity of a plant's tip to grow towards the light and its root to grow away from the light, a phenomenon called phototropism.
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Almost 200 years ago, researchers first began to characterize plant responses to sunlight-among them, the propensity of a plant's tip to grow towards the light and its root to grow away from the light, a phenomenon called phototropism.
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