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What does chemotropism mean?

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  1. (biology) The movement or growth of an organism in response to a chemical stimulus
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Plants are also able to concentrate their roots in P-fertilised zones, presumably by chemotropism.
Herbst pointed out that this might be a case of chemotropism, caused by the oxygen surrounding the egg.
The act of seeking the female as well as that of cohabitation are in many cases combinations of chemotropism and stereotropism.
Jessell, then all at Columbia University in New York City, were the first to describe chemotropism at work in the spinal cord.
But the notion of chemotropism came to fruition only a decade later in the context of nerve regeneration.
It is chemotropism, not solicitude for its offspring, which drives the flesh fly to lay its eggs on decaying meat.

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