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Description of plant tropisms

Give a brief description of plant tropisms?

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Tropisms are movements caused through the external stimulus. In Botany studied plant tropisms are: phototropism (tropism in response to light), geotropism (tropism in response to earth gravity) and thigmotropism (tropism in response to the mechanical stimulus).

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