TAXIS

Taxis

A taxis, from Ancient Greek meaning "arrangement," is an innate behavioral response by an organism to a directional stimulus or gradient of stimulus intensity. A taxis differs from a tropism in that the organism has motility and demonstrates guided movement towards or away from the stimulus source. It is sometimes distinguished from a kinesis, a non-directional change in activity in response to a stimulus.

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taxis

Noun

  1. The movement of an organism in response to a stimulus.
  2. The manipulation of a body part into its normal position after injury.
  3. The arrangement of the parts of a topic.

Noun (etymology 2)



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