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Tropism  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Note

  • distinguish -tropic from -trophic (nutritional)

Scope note

  • The directional growth of an organism in response to an external stimulus such as light, touch, or gravity. Growth towards the stimulus is a positive tropism; growth away from the stimulus is a negative tropism. (From Concise Dictionary of Biology, 1990)

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