Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An organism, such as a bacterium, requiring free oxygen to live.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the aërobia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun an organism such as a microorganism that requires oxygen for life or growth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biology Any
organism (but especially abacterium ) that can tolerate the presence ofoxygen , or that needs oxygen to survive
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an organism (especially a bacterium) that requires air or free oxygen for life
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The original "slave" might have been photosynthetic, while the "host" might have been a facultative aerobe thanks to peroxisomes.
A critique on the endosymbiotic theory for the origin of mitochondria 2007
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If we have an facultative aerobe, it already had aerobic respiration.
A critique on the endosymbiotic theory for the origin of mitochondria 2007
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The original "slave" might have been photosynthetic, while the "host" might have been a facultative aerobe thanks to peroxisomes.
A critique on the endosymbiotic theory for the origin of mitochondria 2007
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If we have an facultative aerobe, it already had aerobic respiration.
A critique on the endosymbiotic theory for the origin of mitochondria 2007
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The host (facultative aerobe implies facultative anaerobe, doesn't it?) could handle aerobic conditions already, presumably because it had peroxisomes as oxygen sink. t's funny that you mention peroxisomes, as people once thought they were endosymbionts but now evidence seems to point to en origin from the ER.
A critique on the endosymbiotic theory for the origin of mitochondria 2007
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~ -- The question as to whether the organism under observation is (a) an obligate aerobe, (b) a facultative anaerobe, or
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Pour a layer, 1 or 2 cm. deep, of broth cultivation of a vigourous aerobe -- e. g.,
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The growth of the aerobe will use up all the oxygen that reaches it and will not allow any to pass through to the medium below, which will consequently remain in an anaerobic condition.
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Obvious growth in the closed branch as well as in the bulb or in the inverted gas tube as well as in the bulk of the medium will indicate that it is a facultative anaerobe; whilst growth only occurring in the bulb or in the closed branch shows that it is an obligate aerobe or anaerobe respectively.
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Pontiac fever Facultative intracellular L. pneumophila flea Bubonic plague Septicemic plague Pneumonic plague V and W Ag coagulase Y. pestis Water aerosols, raw vegetables, flowers Resistant to chem. agents, antibiotics; Oxidase + NONFERMENTING Bluish green pigment-pyocyanin Grape-like odor Obligate aerobe Nosocomial infection Burns, Immunocompromised (eg., cystic fibrosis), 'hot tub folliculitis' Echtyma gangrenosum Exotoxin - (target: liver);
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