Biology GCSE
Tropisms
What Tropisms means in Biology GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Unequal auxin distribution causes unequal growth rates, which produce the bending seen in tropisms.
Directional growth responses to a stimulus such as light or gravity.
Topics that use Tropisms
- Control and coordination (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Auxin and cell elongation
- Auxin mechanisms
- Biological drawing skills
- dependent variable
- Gravitropism
- independent variable
- Phototropism
- Plant coordination
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