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Chemotaxis vs Odortaxis - What's the difference?

chemotaxis | odortaxis | coordinate terms |

Chemotaxis is a coordinate term of odortaxis.


As nouns the difference between chemotaxis and odortaxis

is that chemotaxis is (biology|biochemistry) the movement of a cell or an organism in response to a chemical stimulant while odortaxis is (nematology) movement of an organism with respect to, usually towards, a volatile airborne chemical.

chemotaxis

English

(wikipedia chemotaxis)

Noun

  • (biology, biochemistry) the movement of a cell or an organism in response to a chemical stimulant

    • Coordinate terms

    * (l)

    odortaxis

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • (nematology) Movement of an organism with respect to, usually towards, a volatile airborne chemical
    • We measured odortaxis to benzaldehyde.

    Coordinate terms

    * chemotaxis (used where the chemical is dissolved in water)

    Derived terms

    * odortactic