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Definition of Geotactic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Geotactic
Literary usage of Geotactic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences by American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1902)
"These investigations clearly show a geotactic response in the unicellular organisms
studied. The kind of response varies according to other conditions, ..."
2. The Causes and Course of Organic Evolution: A Study of Bioenergics by John Muirhead Macfarlane (1918)
"The geotactic region in plants is the basal or fixing region. In the free-swimming
cells or zoospores of the unicellular, as well as the multicellular, ..."
3. Experimental Morphology by Charles Benedict Davenport (1899)
"On warm days the typical geotactic phenomena are often absent, ... Whether light
inhibits the geotactic response was one of the questions asked and answered ..."
4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1899)
"A rough and ready demonstration of this geotactic response may be found by filling a
... For the theoretical interpretations of the geotactic responses the ..."
5. Lectures on Plant Physiology by Ludwig Jost (1907)
"Many organisms, when other attractive forces are excluded, move upwards or, in
other words, are negatively geotactic. MASSART found in the case of two ..."
6. Journal of Applied Microscopy by Bausch & Lomb Optical Company (1900)
"Small tadpoles that are negatively geotactic do not become positively geotactic
when placed in solutions heavier than their own specific gravity, ..."
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