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chemotaxis


Definition of chemotaxis

noun

[mass noun] Biology
  • movement of a motile cell or organism, or part of one, in a direction corresponding to a gradient of increasing or decreasing concentration of a particular substance.

Derivatives

chemotactic

adjective

chemotaxis in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of chemotaxis in the US English dictionary
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