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71 relations: A Greek–English Lexicon, Animal locomotion, Antheridium, Archegonium, Argulidae, Bee, Beehive, Behavior, Butterfly, Calliphoridae, Chemical substance, Chemiosmosis, Chemotaxis, Chloroplast, Codling moth, Durotaxis, Earth's magnetic field, Electric current, Electric field, Escherichia coli, Euglena, Eukaryote, Fern, Flagellate, Flower, Fluid dynamics, Gravitaxis, Gravity, Grayling (butterfly), Haptotaxis, Intrinsic and extrinsic properties, Journal of Crustacean Biology, Kinesis (biology), King crab, Larva, Light, Loxodes, Magnetic field, Magnetotaxis, Marchantiophyta, Mechanotaxis, Memory, Moisture, Moss, Motility, NADH dehydrogenase, Nematode, Optomotor response, Organism, Orientation (geometry), ..., Oxygen, Paramecium, Photosynthesis, Phototaxis, Plankton, Pressure, Prokaryote, Protozoa, Remanella, Rheotaxis, Sensory nervous system, Sensory neuron, Slime mold, Somatosensory system, Sound, Stiffness, Stimulus (physiology), Temperature, Thermotaxis, Tropism, Wind. Expand index (21 more) »
A Greek–English Lexicon
A Greek–English Lexicon, often referred to as Liddell & Scott, Liddell–Scott–Jones, or LSJ, is a standard lexicographical work of the Ancient Greek language.
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Animal locomotion
Animal locomotion, in ethology, is any of a variety of movements or methods that animals use to move from one place to another.
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Antheridium
An antheridium is a haploid structure or organ producing and containing male gametes (called antherozoids or sperm).
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Archegonium
An archegonium (pl: archegonia), from the ancient Greek ἀρχή ("beginning") and γόνος ("offspring"), is a multicellular structure or organ of the gametophyte phase of certain plants, producing and containing the ovum or female gamete.
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Argulidae
The family Argulidae contains the carp lice or fish lice – a group of parasitic crustaceans of uncertain position within the Maxillopoda.
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Bee
Bees are flying insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their role in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the European honey bee, for producing honey and beeswax.
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Beehive
A beehive is an enclosed structure man-made in which some honey bee species of the subgenus Apis live and raise their young.
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Behavior
Behavior (American English) or behaviour (Commonwealth English) is the range of actions and mannerisms made by individuals, organisms, systems, or artificial entities in conjunction with themselves or their environment, which includes the other systems or organisms around as well as the (inanimate) physical environment.
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Butterfly
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths.
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Calliphoridae
The Calliphoridae (commonly known as blow flies, blow-flies, carrion flies, bluebottles, greenbottles, or cluster flies) are a family of insects in the order Diptera, with 1,100 known species.
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Chemical substance
A chemical substance, also known as a pure substance, is a form of matter that consists of molecules of the same composition and structure.
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Chemiosmosis
Chemiosmosis is the movement of ions across a semipermeable membrane, down their electrochemical gradient.
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Chemotaxis
Chemotaxis (from chemo- + taxis) is the movement of an organism in response to a chemical stimulus.
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Chloroplast
Chloroplasts are organelles, specialized compartments, in plant and algal cells.
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Codling moth
The codling moth (Cydia pomonella) is a member of the Lepidopteran family Tortricidae.
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Durotaxis
Durotaxis is a form of cell migration in which cells are guided by rigidity gradients, which arise from differential structural properties of the extracellular matrix (ECM).
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Earth's magnetic field
Earth's magnetic field, also known as the geomagnetic field, is the magnetic field that extends from the Earth's interior out into space, where it meets the solar wind, a stream of charged particles emanating from the Sun.
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Electric current
An electric current is a flow of electric charge.
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Electric field
An electric field is a vector field surrounding an electric charge that exerts force on other charges, attracting or repelling them.
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Escherichia coli
Escherichia coli (also known as E. coli) is a Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped, coliform bacterium of the genus Escherichia that is commonly found in the lower intestine of warm-blooded organisms (endotherms).
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Euglena
Euglena is a genus of single-celled flagellate eukaryotes.
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Eukaryote
Eukaryotes are organisms whose cells have a nucleus enclosed within membranes, unlike Prokaryotes (Bacteria and other Archaea).
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Fern
A fern is a member of a group of vascular plants that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers.
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Flagellate
A flagellate is a cell or organism with one or more whip-like appendages called flagella.
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Flower
A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms).
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Fluid dynamics
In physics and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids - liquids and gases.
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Gravitaxis
Gravitaxis refers to is a form of taxis characterized by the directional movement of an organism in response to gravity.
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Gravity
Gravity, or gravitation, is a natural phenomenon by which all things with mass or energy—including planets, stars, galaxies, and even light—are brought toward (or gravitate toward) one another.
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Grayling (butterfly)
The grayling or rock grayling (Hipparchia semele) is a species in the brush-footed butterfly family Nymphalidae.
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Haptotaxis
Haptotaxis (from Greek ἅπτω (hapto, "touch, fasten") and τάξις (taxis, "arrangement, order")) is the directional motility or outgrowth of cells, e.g. in the case of axonal outgrowth, usually up a gradient of cellular adhesion sites or substrate-bound chemoattractants (the gradient of the chemoattractant being expressed or bound on a surface, in contrast to the classical model of chemotaxis, in which the gradient develops in a soluble fluid.). These gradients are naturally present in the extracellular matrix (ECM) of the body during processes such as angiogenesis or artificially present in biomaterials where gradients are established by altering the concentration of adhesion sites on a polymer substrate.
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Intrinsic and extrinsic properties
An intrinsic property is a property of a system or of a material itself or within.
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Journal of Crustacean Biology
The Journal of Crustacean Biology is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal in the field of carcinology (crustacean research).
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Kinesis (biology)
Kinesis, like a taxis or tropism, is a movement or activity of a cell or an organism in response to a stimulus.
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King crab
King crabs are a taxon of crab-like decapod crustaceans chiefly found in cold seas.
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Larva
A larva (plural: larvae) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into adults.
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Light
Light is electromagnetic radiation within a certain portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
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Loxodes
Loxodes is a genus of karyorelictean ciliates, belonging to family Loxodidae.
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Magnetic field
A magnetic field is a vector field that describes the magnetic influence of electrical currents and magnetized materials.
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Magnetotaxis
Magnetotaxis is a process implemented by a diverse group of gram negative bacteria that involves orienting and coordinating movement in response to Earth's magnetic field.
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Marchantiophyta
The Marchantiophyta are a division of non-vascular land plants commonly referred to as hepatics or liverworts.
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Mechanotaxis
Mechanotaxis refers to the directed movement of cell motility via mechanical cues (e.g., fluidic shear stress, substrate stiffness gradients, etc.). In response to fluidic shear stress, for example, cells have been shown to migrate in the direction of the fluid flow.
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Memory
Memory is the faculty of the mind by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved.
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Moisture
Moisture is the presence of a liquid, especially water, often in trace amounts.
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Moss
Mosses are small flowerless plants that typically grow in dense green clumps or mats, often in damp or shady locations.
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Motility
Motility is the ability of an organism to move independently, using metabolic energy.
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NADH dehydrogenase
NADH dehydrogenase (cytochrome c reductase, type 1 dehydrogenase, beta-NADH dehydrogenase dinucleotide, diaphorase, dihydrocodehydrogenase I dehydrogenase, dihydronicotinamide adenine dinucleotide dehydrogenase, diphosphopyridine diaphorase, DPNH diaphorase, NADH diaphorase, NADH hydrogenase, NADH oxidoreductase, NADH-menadione oxidoreductase, reduced diphosphopyridine nucleotide diaphorase) is an enzyme with systematic name NADH:acceptor oxidoreductase.
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Nematode
The nematodes or roundworms constitute the phylum Nematoda (also called Nemathelminthes).
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Optomotor response
The optomotor response is an innate behaviour common to fish and all insects.
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Organism
In biology, an organism (from Greek: ὀργανισμός, organismos) is any individual entity that exhibits the properties of life.
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Orientation (geometry)
In geometry the orientation, angular position, or attitude of an object such as a line, plane or rigid body is part of the description of how it is placed in the space it occupies.
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Oxygen
Oxygen is a chemical element with symbol O and atomic number 8.
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Paramecium
Paramecium (also Paramoecium) is a genus of unicellular ciliates, commonly studied as a representative of the ciliate group.
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Photosynthesis
Photosynthesis is a process used by plants and other organisms to convert light energy into chemical energy that can later be released to fuel the organisms' activities (energy transformation).
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Phototaxis
Phototaxis is a kind of taxis, or locomotory movement, that occurs when a whole organism moves towards or away from stimulus of light.
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Plankton
Plankton (singular plankter) are the diverse collection of organisms that live in large bodies of water and are unable to swim against a current.
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Pressure
Pressure (symbol: p or P) is the force applied perpendicular to the surface of an object per unit area over which that force is distributed.
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Prokaryote
A prokaryote is a unicellular organism that lacks a membrane-bound nucleus, mitochondria, or any other membrane-bound organelle.
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Protozoa
Protozoa (also protozoan, plural protozoans) is an informal term for single-celled eukaryotes, either free-living or parasitic, which feed on organic matter such as other microorganisms or organic tissues and debris.
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Remanella
Remanella is a genus of karyorelict ciliates, belonging to family Loxodidae.
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Rheotaxis
(Positive) Rheotaxis is a form of taxis seen in many aquatic organisms, e.g., fish, whereby they will (generally) turn to face into an oncoming current.
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Sensory nervous system
The sensory nervous system is a part of the nervous system responsible for processing sensory information.
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Sensory neuron
Sensory neurons also known as afferent neurons are neurons that convert a specific type of stimulus, via their receptors, into action potentials or graded potentials.
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Slime mold
Slime mold or slime mould is an informal name given to several kinds of unrelated eukaryotic organisms that can live freely as single cells, but can aggregate together to form multicellular reproductive structures.
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Somatosensory system
The somatosensory system is a part of the sensory nervous system.
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Sound
In physics, sound is a vibration that typically propagates as an audible wave of pressure, through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid.
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Stiffness
Stiffness is the rigidity of an object — the extent to which it resists deformation in response to an applied force.
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Stimulus (physiology)
In physiology, a stimulus (plural stimuli) is a detectable change in the internal or external environment.
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Temperature
Temperature is a physical quantity expressing hot and cold.
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Thermotaxis
Thermotaxis is a behavior in which an organism directs its locomotion up or down a gradient of temperature.
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Tropism
A tropism (from Greek τρόπος, tropos, "a turning") is a biological phenomenon, indicating growth or turning movement of a biological organism, usually a plant, in response to an environmental stimulus.
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Wind
Wind is the flow of gases on a large scale.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxis
