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- adjective Having a tendency to adjust orientation in response to
light . Aplant orsedentary animal that ispositively phototaxic will lean or grow toward light. One that isnegatively phototaxic will lean or grow away from light.
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It will include songs on topics like phototaxic bacteria, stress hormones, wheat genomics, bacterial biofilms, bat taxonomy, x-ray crystallography, and luminescence dating!
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