negative chemotaxis

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   movement away from a chemical stimulus

   Broaderchemotaxis

Questions about negative chemotaxis

What does negative chemotaxis mean?

negative chemotaxis means "movement away from a chemical stimulus".

Is negative chemotaxis a common word?

negative chemotaxis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.