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be facultative
adjective
Of or relating to faculty, especially to mental faculty
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Flowers are known to be facultative cleistogamous [35].
Synchronisation of the GHRH network might be facultative for factors, like ghrelin, which enhance the amplitude and not the frequency of GH pulses [1].
However, their presence in prefiltered surface samples (Sargasso DNA2; [41], [41]) as well indicates that they may be facultative anaerobes thriving even in the fully oxygenated free-living phase.
According to the findings in this work, the symbiosis may be facultative for some Symbiodinium spp. because they can find some of the benefits that they obtain from the coral in other habitats such as macroalgal beds.
Diapause can be facultative (elicited by direct environmental cues) or obligatory (independent of temporary environmental changes, probably evolved from facultative diapause) and it entails a state of decreased inactivity thought of as developmental arrest [3].
An intermediate compromise may be facultative selfing, e.g. in pulmonate snails (Jarne & Auld 2006).
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Some bacteria extracted from a meteorite were facultative aerobes.
Many bacteria are facultative anaerobes that can take their oxygen or leave it.
Brucellae are facultative intracellular pathogens.
They are facultative, oxidase-negative anaerobes and produce gas from glucose.
The genus Paenibacillus includes bacteria which are facultative anaerobic and endospore-forming.
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