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单词 phototaxis
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Definition of phototaxis in English:

phototaxis

noun ˌfəʊtəʊˈtaksɪsˌfōdōˈtaksəs
mass nounBiology
  • The bodily movement of a motile organism in response to light, either towards the source of light (positive phototaxis) or away from it (negative phototaxis).

    Compare with phototropism
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Far-red or red background lights irradiated vertically from above drastically inhibited phototaxis toward red light or far-red light, respectively.
    • Wild-type flies showing normal phototaxis consistently moved towards the light to end up in the last tube by the end of the trial.
    • Namely, two rhodopsins that absorb in different spectral bands and optimally function at different intensity ranges generate two photoreceptor currents that control flagella movement during phototaxis.
    • In 1883, he demonstrated that phototaxis of other protozoans toward Euglena was due to light-induced production of oxygen in the latter.
    • They possess a common chromophore, retinal, that upon absorption of light isomerizes and thereby triggers biological functions ranging from light energy conversion to phototaxis and vision.

Derivatives

  • phototactic

  • adjective
    Biology
    • Nurses and foragers also differ in phototactic behaviour where nurses are negatively phototactic (avoid light) and foragers are positively phototactic (attracted to light).
      Example sentencesExamples
      • These unicellular photoreceptors contain both the putative photosensory microvilli and the shielding pigment granules within the same cell, which also carries a motor cilium that enables the larva to show phototactic behavior.
      • Lebert and Hader observed a curious phototactic phenomenon in eyeless mutants of Euglena, i.e. it swam perpendicularly with respect to the incident light, namely, diaphototaxis.
      • From a screen of 18,500 mutagenized flies, 171 phototactic mutants were recovered of which 15 appear to be specifically defective in synaptic transmission on the basis of the results of electroretinogram recordings.
      • Most unicellular flagellate algae are phototactic, i.e., capable of orientation with respect to the direction of light.
 
 

Definition of phototaxis in US English:

phototaxis

nounˌfōdōˈtaksəs
Biology
  • The bodily movement of a motile organism in response to light, either toward the source of light (positive phototaxis) or away from it (negative phototaxis).

    Compare with phototropism
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In 1883, he demonstrated that phototaxis of other protozoans toward Euglena was due to light-induced production of oxygen in the latter.
    • Far-red or red background lights irradiated vertically from above drastically inhibited phototaxis toward red light or far-red light, respectively.
    • Namely, two rhodopsins that absorb in different spectral bands and optimally function at different intensity ranges generate two photoreceptor currents that control flagella movement during phototaxis.
    • Wild-type flies showing normal phototaxis consistently moved towards the light to end up in the last tube by the end of the trial.
    • They possess a common chromophore, retinal, that upon absorption of light isomerizes and thereby triggers biological functions ranging from light energy conversion to phototaxis and vision.
 
 
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