You are going to create a single cell comic representing each taxis. You can use the same animal for each comic or you can choose a different one for each. Draw all 11 comics in your sketchbook.

-Reorienting yourself do to a response to stimuli is known as taxis

-Aerotaxis- Response to oxygen

-Chemotaxis- Response to chemicals

-Energy taxis - Moves because it needs to burn energy

-Phototaxis- movement in response to light

-Thermotaxis- towards a temperature gradient

-Gravitaxis- (Known as geotaxis) Movement due to gravity.

-Plankton move up to get to the surface of the water

-Rheotaxis- In response to a current in fluid

-Magnetotaxis- in response to magnetic fields

-Galvanotaxis/electrotaxis- Directional movement in response to electric fields

-Phonotaxis- Response to sound

-Thigmotaxis- Response to physical contact or proximity

Here is an example created by a student last year