Crossword-Solution: PHOTOTROPIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Phototropic | a. | Same as Heliotropic. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “PHOTOTROPIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Seeking the light | 1 answer |
| relating to phototropism, movement directed by light | 1 answer |
| HELIOTROPIC | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
body.
Hint 2 anagram
MOETION
Hint 3 another clue
A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with PHOTOTROPIC (5)
Suzanne did a little interview with her about her brothers' projects -- a bike-helmet that had been algorithmically evolved for minimum weight and maximum protection; a smart skylight that deformed itself to follow light based on simple phototropic controllers.
And then, as all before, The problem is how much of mind to use, How much of instinct, phototropic sense, That turns instinctively to light--green worms More plant than animal are eyes all over Because their bodies know the light, no eyes Where sight is centralized.
All forms of tropism, chemicotropic, thermotropic, phototropic manifestations, active and passive tropisms clearly show that minute organisms involuntarily and unresistingly respond to the influence of natural forces, just as if they were inanimate particles.
For example, if light is the stimulating agent, when it strikes a positively phototropic animal, if the latter is not already oriented, the eyes or other nerve terminations sensitive to light transmit an impulse through the central nervous system to certain muscles causing them to increase their tension and thereby swing the animal around with its head toward the light.
For example, swarm spores in a dish of water which at a given temperature are positively phototropic, that is, gather at the side of the dish toward the light, may, if the temperature of the water is raised or in case of marine forms if the salinity is increased, become negatively phototropic.