Phototaxis vs Channelrhodopsin - What's the difference?
phototaxis | channelrhodopsin |
(biology) The movement of an organism either towards or away from a source of light
An opsin protein that controls phototaxis in unicellular green algae.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=August 14, author=Ingfei Chen, title=The Beam of Light That Flips a Switch That Turns on the Brain, work=New York Times
, passage=The channelrhodopsin switch is “really going to blow the lid off the whole analysis of brain function,” said George Augustine, a neurobiologist at Duke University in Durham, N.C. }}
As nouns the difference between phototaxis and channelrhodopsin
is that phototaxis is (biology) the movement of an organism either towards or away from a source of light while channelrhodopsin is an opsin protein that controls phototaxis in unicellular green algae.phototaxis
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(wikipedia phototaxis)Noun
(-)channelrhodopsin
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(wikipedia channelrhodopsin)Noun
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