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tropism
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thumb|300px|Daisies (Bellis perennis) facing the Sun after opening in the morning showing [[heliotropism]] thumb|Phycomyces, a fungus, exhibiting phototropism
Research
18,555 papers- Avian Influenza Virus Tropism in Humans.Viruses · 2023
- How EBV Infects: The Tropism and Underlying Molecular Mechanism for Viral Infection.Viruses · 2022
- Bone Tropism in Cancer Metastases.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine · 2020
- Tissue tropism in parasitic diseases.Open biology · 2019
- Tumor Tropism of DNA Viruses for Oncolytic Virotherapy.Viruses · 2023
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thumb|300px|Daisies (Bellis perennis) facing the Sun after opening in the morning showing [[heliotropism]] thumb|Phycomyces, a fungus, exhibiting phototropism
In biology, a tropism is a phenomenon indicating the growth or turning movement of an organism, usually a plant, in response to an environmental stimulus. In tropisms, this response is dependent on the direction of the stimulus (as opposed to nastic movements, which are non-directional responses). Tropisms are usually named for the stimulus involved; for example, a phototropism is a movement to the light source, and an anemotropism is the response and adaptation of plants to the wind.