#geotropism

The behavioral phenomenon observed in both humans and plants where the orientation or positioning within a queue or exhibit is influenced by external stimuli, particularly gravitational pull and social dynamics.

The tendency of individuals in a queue or participants in an exhibit to align themselves in a manner that maximizes their exposure to a desired focal point, often governed by an instinctual response to the environment's physical and social structure.

Etymology: Derived from Latin exhibere (to display) + queue (a line) + Greek tropos (turning, inclination) + -ism (a practice or philosophy).

Example Sentences:

"The phenomenon of exhibiquotropism can be observed in crowded museums, where visitors naturally form lines and clusters around popular exhibits."

Why Is A Banana Curved? - #bananas

banana path isolated on white For such a commonplace ingredient in our diets, there are plenty of misconceptions about bananas, not least that they grow on trees. Botanically, a distant relative of ginger, the banana fruit is a berry grown on an herb bush, albeit the world’s largest flowering herbaceous plant. All the visible parts of a banana plant come from a corm. What looks like a trunk is…

Meet my friend's cactus that doesn't understand gravity.

I'm not very versed in botany anymore but I believe this might be a geotropism mutant. It looks like it fell over a bunch but no. It has been growing not up the entire time my friend has had it.

* Plate X, Figs. 1 and 2 (cropped to square) illustrating R. A. Robertson. "The Sense-Organs of Plants," Transactions of the Edinburgh Field Naturalists' and Microscopical Society 6 (1907-12) : 164-172 Smithsonian copy, scandate 20110719

Darwin’s results were fully confirmed in 1894 by the work of Czapek (‘Annals of Botany,’ 1894). Ozapek’s experiment consisted in inducing the root to grow into a small glass boot in such a manner that the root-tip — presumably the sense-organ — was held at right angles to the motor area — the sub-apical region. When the seedling was supported so that the tip was vertical, there was no curvature; when supported so that the tip was horizontal, curvature took place in the motor area, bringing the apex—the percipient organ — back to the vertical, the position of geotropic equilibrium.

* Plate XI, Figs. 1 and 2 (cropped to square) illustrating R. A. Robertson. "The Sense-Organs of Plants," Transactions of the Edinburgh Field Naturalists' and Microscopical Society 6 (1907-12) : 164-172 Smithsonian copy, scandate 20110719

Mustard-seeds are planted on a flower-pot saucer standing on its edge. The saucer is kept moist, covered with an inverted pot, and placed in the dark. After a few days the seeds have germinated, and appear as represented in Plate XI, fig. 1. The saucer may now be rotated through any angle, so that the roots lie horizontal, oblique, &c.

Plate XI, fig. 2, shows what happens when the saucer is turned through 180°, and illustrates the positive geotropism of the root and the apo-geotropism of the shoot...

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they planted gardens that grew only inward

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Spring is finally here. As I sit writing this blog, birds are outside my window chirping away, it’s bright out earlier and later, and it feels like a new energy is zipping through the air. It’s time to shed old layers, thought patterns, negative habits and ways of being and start new practices, intentions and so forth.

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