Concept information
Preferred term
Tropism
Type
-
Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
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)
History note
- 95
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D018523
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