Chasteberry is the fruit of the chaste tree, a small shrub-like tree native to Central Asia and the Mediterranean region. The dried ripe chasteberry is used to prepare liquid extracts or solid extracts that are put into capsules and tablets.
Kinesis (biology) Woodlouse activity decreases as humidity increases. Kinesis, like a taxis or tropism, is a movement or activity of a cell or an organism in response to a stimulus. However, unlike taxis, the response to the stimulus provided (such as gas exposure, light intensity or ambient temperature) is non-directional.
The combining form -kinesis, from Greek ÎºÎ¯Î½Î·ÏÎ¹Ï, movement, motion, denotes movement, being the suffix form of the word kinesis. 1  Cytokinesis, the step of cell division following telophase of mitosis, when the cytoplasm is divided into two of roughly equal proportion to the two new daughter cells.