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  2. Rapid plant movement - Wikipedia

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    These rapid plant movements differ from the more common, but much slower "growth-movements" of plants, called tropisms. Tropisms encompass movements that lead to physical, permanent alterations of the plant while rapid plant movements are usually reversible or occur over a shorter span of time.

  3. The Power of Movement in Plants - Wikipedia

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    The Power of Movement in Plants was published 6 November 1880, and 1500 copies were quickly sold by publisher John Murray. [1] This book stands at the culmination of a long line of study in plants and is immediately preceded by 'The different forms of flowers on Plants of the same species’ (1877).

  4. Animal Locomotion - Wikipedia

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    Horse galloping The Horse in Motion, 24-camera rig with tripwires GIF animation of Plate 626 Gallop; thoroughbred bay mare Annie G. [1]. Animal Locomotion: An Electro-photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements is a series of scientific photographs by Eadweard Muybridge made in 1884 and 1885 at the University of Pennsylvania, to study motion in animals (including humans).

  5. Plantigrade - Wikipedia

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    In terrestrial animals, plantigrade locomotion means walking with the toes and metatarsals flat on the ground. It is one of three forms of locomotion adopted by terrestrial mammals . The other options are digitigrade , walking on the toes and fingers with the heel and wrist permanently raised, and unguligrade , walking on the nail or nails of ...

  6. Thermotropism - Wikipedia

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    The precise physiological mechanism enabling plant thermotropism is not yet understood. [4] It has been noted that one of the earliest physiological responses by plants to cooling is an influx of calcium ions from the cell walls into the cytosol, which increases calcium ion concentration in the intracellular space.

  7. Motility - Wikipedia

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    In addition to animal locomotion, most animals are motile, though some are vagile, described as having passive locomotion. Many bacteria and other microorganisms , including even some viruses , [ 9 ] and multicellular organisms are motile; some mechanisms of fluid flow in multicellular organs and tissue are also considered instances of motility ...

  8. Arboreal locomotion - Wikipedia

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    Arboreal locomotion is the locomotion of animals in trees. In habitats in which trees are present, animals have evolved to move in them. Some animals may scale trees ...

  9. Protist locomotion - Wikipedia

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    [127] [128] [129] Active locomotion, targeting and steering of concentrated therapeutic and diagnostic agents embedded in mobile microrobots to the site of action can overcome the existing challenges of conventional therapies. [130] [131] [132] To this end, bacteria have been commonly used with attached beads and ghost cell bodies.