turning or growing toward the right side; describing an organism's rightward directional response.
From dexio- (right) plus -tropous (turning), an adjective form. Technical biological term parallel to dexiotropic, using alternative suffix formation.
Dexiotropous organisms reveal nature's preference for chirality—the same molecular handedness that makes your heart beat perfectly on the left shows up across species in consistent left-right patterns!
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