- Look up
obligate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. As an adjective,
obligate means "by necessity" (antonym facultative) and is used
mainly in biology...
- An
obligate parasite or
holoparasite is a
parasitic organism that
cannot complete its life-cycle
without exploiting a
suitable host. If an
obligate parasite...
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Obligate anaerobes are
microorganisms killed by
normal atmospheric concentrations of
oxygen (20.95% O2).
Oxygen tolerance varies between species, with...
- "co-actions",
later adopted by
biologists as "interactions".
Relationships can be
obligate,
meaning that one or both of the
symbionts entirely depend on each other...
- in
return for an
increase in an individual's
rights or power. The term
obligate can also be used in a
biological context, in
reference to
species which...
- An
obligate aerobe is an
organism that
requires oxygen to grow.
Through cellular respiration,
these organisms use
oxygen to
metabolise substances, like...
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Obligate mutualism is a
special case of
mutualism where an
ecological interaction between species mutually benefits each other, and one or all species...
- lost the ****ual
phase and are now
completely a****ual. Many
other cases of
obligate parthenogenesis (or gynogenesis) are
found among polyploids and hybrids...
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Lactobacillus is a
genus of gram-positive,
aerotolerant anaerobes or microaerophilic, rod-shaped, non-spore-forming bacteria.
Until 2020, the
genus Lactobacillus...
- are meat eaters; a few, such as the
large and
small cats (Felidae) are
obligate carnivores (see below).
Other classes of
carnivore are
highly variable...
