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What is the difference between phototropism and tropism ?

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facilitates the roots of plants going down towards gravity and the stems to rise up away from gravity. ... Thus, the difference is that geotropism is driven by gravity and phototropism is driven by light.
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"Phototropism" is like the phototropic of the disposition or the development ; while "tropism" on the other hand , is like the adjustment on a organism to the extrinsic to the ' stimulus'
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