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Meaning of "telotaxis" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TELOTAXIS

ˌteləʊˈtæksɪs


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TELOTAXIS

noun
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adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Telotaxis is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TELOTAXIS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Taxis

A taxis is the movement of an organism in response to a stimulus such as light or the presence of food. Taxes are innate behavioral responses. A taxis differs from a tropism in that the organism has motility and demonstrates guided movement towards or away from the stimulus source. It is sometimes distinguished from a kinesis, a non-directional change in activity in response to a stimulus.

Definition of telotaxis in the English dictionary

The definition of telotaxis in the dictionary is a movement of an organism in response to one particular stimulus, overriding any response to other stimuli present.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TELOTAXIS

aerotaxis · chemotaxis · cytotaxis · epistaxis · geotaxis · heliotaxis · heterotaxis · homotaxis · hydrotaxis · hypotaxis · parataxis · phototaxis · phyllotaxis · rheotaxis · stereotaxis · taxis · thermotaxis · thigmotaxis · trophotaxis · tropotaxis

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TELOTAXIS

telocentric · Teloekbetoeng · telome · telomerase · telomere · telomerisation · telomerization · telomic · telophase · telophasic · telos · telpher · telpher line · telpherage · telpheric · telpherman · telphermen · telpherway · telson · telsonic

WORDS THAT END LIKE TELOTAXIS

anaphylaxis · axis · chemoprophylaxis · major axis · minor axis · neutral axis · optic axis · orthoaxis · parapraxis · phylaxis · polar axis · praxis · principal axis · prophylaxis · sparaxis · synaxis · tachyphylaxis · x-axis · y-axis · z-axis

Synonyms and antonyms of telotaxis in the English dictionary of synonyms

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टेलोटोक्सिस
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TELOTAXIS»

Discover the use of telotaxis in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to telotaxis and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Adaptive Behaviour and Learning
In telotaxis, the animals generally head straight for one of the two lights (although they may switch from one to the other as they approach) even if the lights are quite far away. Fraenkel and Gunn give a graphic, natural-history description of ...
J. E. R. Staddon, 1983
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Foundations of Animal Behavior: Classic Papers with Commentaries
Tinbergen (1942) makes this explicit when he says: ". . . in the concept of pharotaxis the part played by mnemic processes is not taken as a criterion, because in tropo-, meno-, and telotaxis the criterion upon which the 'distinction' is based also ...
Lynne D. Houck, Lee C. Drickamer, Animal Behavior Society, 1996
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Spatial Orientation: The Spatial Control of Behavior in ...
The hover fly Eristalis, for instance, moves midway between two lights (tropotaxis) when intact but heads for one of the two lights when one eye is blinded (telotaxis) . In two-light experiments a bee may either walk along the midline or toward ...
Hermann Schone, 2014
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Notes on the Elements of Behavioral Science
Telotaxis During telotaxis, the animal orients toward or away from a configurational stimulus, for example, toward the odor of a mate or away from the image of a predator. Eliminating one of the pair of bilateral receptors does not produce ...
Doris Zumpe, Richard P. Michael, 2001
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Animal Behaviour
Telotaxis. The orienting mechanisms which keep a certain stimulus at a fixed place on a receptor, mostly the eye, are called telotaxis. When we see a sprinter doing a 100 meter dash at an atheletic meet, we turn our eyes to get the image of the ...
Reena Mathur, 2009
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Advances in Insect Physiology: Physiology of Human and ...
and radiation – on the potential use of thermal telotaxis by an insect walking towards a source of heat. Convection currents propagate upwards and cannot be perceived by an insect located tens of centimetres away from, and at the same level ...
‎2009
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Animal Behavior Desk Reference: A Dictionary of Animal ...
1985). pharotaxis See taxis: telotaxis. phobotaxis n. Taxis away from a stimulus ( Lincoln et al. 1985). See kinesis. phonotaxis n. In many animal species: Taxis with regard to sound, used for danger, enemy, and mate detection and auditory ...
Edward M. Barrows, 2011
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TEXTBOOK OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR
Door beetles use their right eye for orientation by solar compass in forenoon, and their left eye in afternoon. Biological significance of this type of orientation is still not known. Telotaxis Mechanisms keeping certain stimulus at a fixed place on a ...
FATIK BARAN MANDAL, 2012
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Handbook of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, Volume II: ...
Telotaxis was not observed in schizophrenia, but after careful telemetering observation and subsequent analysis, it was established that telotaxis is nevertheless present in patients with schizophrenia in the form of moving only the eyes without ...
Michael S. Ritsner, 2011
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A Dictionary of Animal Behaviour
Eyes that are capable of providing information about the direction of light by virtue of their structure are capable of *telotaxis, a form of directional orientation that does not depend upon simultaneous comparison of the stimulation from two  ...
David Mcfarland, 2006
REFERENCE
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