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taxis (physiology)

Term · Agriculture and food · MLC-T-AGR-006270

Movement of animals or other mobile organisms that is inducible and takes place in a direction related to that of the stimulus, such as the movement of the flagellate protozoan, Euglena, towards light in positive phototaxis.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-AGR-006270
FieldAgriculture and food
SubjectFields of Study
ReferencesNAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary
See alsophysiology; tropisms; thigmotaxis; chemotaxis; magnetotaxis; geotaxis; phototaxis; phonotaxis
TranslationsSpanish: taxis (fisiología)
Record as JSON
{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-006270",
  "term": "taxis (physiology)",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "Movement of animals or other mobile organisms that is inducible and takes place in a direction related to that of the stimulus, such as the movement of the flagellate protozoan, Euglena, towards light in positive phototaxis.",
  "subject": "Fields of Study",
  "see_also": [
    "physiology",
    "tropisms",
    "thigmotaxis",
    "chemotaxis",
    "magnetotaxis",
    "geotaxis",
    "phototaxis",
    "phonotaxis"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "taxis (fisiología)"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/taxis-physiology/"
}

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