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Definition of facultatively in English English dictionary

facultative
That grants permission or power to do something
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Able to grow in or outside of a host or host cell
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Not obligate; optional, discretionary or elective
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adjective indicating a bacterium is able to grow in either the presence or absence of an environmental factor (i e for oxygen, facultative anaerobe; for growth inside cells, facultative intracellular)
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Of or relating to faculty, especially to mental faculty
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granting a privilege or permission or power to do or not do something; "a facultative enactment"
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Of such a character as to admit of existing under various forms or conditions, or of happening or not happening, or the like; Having the power to live under different conditions; as, a facultative parasite, a plant which is normally saprophytic, but which may exist wholly or in part as a parasite; opposed to obligate
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Having the capacity to live under more than one specific set of environmental conditions, as an animal or plant that can live in either a wetland or upland environment (opposed to obligate)
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Facultative reinsurance means reinsurance of individual risks by offer and acceptance wherein the reinsurer retains the "faculty" to accept or reject each risk offered
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{s} making possible, allowing; optional; possible; able to exist in more than one set of environmental conditions (Biology)
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of or relating to the mental faculties
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Having relation to the grant or exercise faculty, or authority, privilege, license, or the like hence, optional; as, facultative enactments, or those which convey a faculty, or permission; the facultative referendum of Switzerland is one that is optional with the people and is necessary only when demanded by petition; facultative studies; opposed to obligatory and compulsory, and sometimes used with to
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Indicates that a bacterium is able to grow in the presence or absence of an environmental condition (e g , facultative aerobe can grow in environments with or without oxygen)
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Pertaining to a faculty or faculties
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Facultative bacteria can use either molecular (dissolved) oxygen or oxygen obtained from food material such as sulfate or nitrate ions In other words, facultative bacteria can live under aerobic or anaerobic conditions
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This term refers to organisms that can adapt to pollution but prefer unpolluted conditions
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A microbial trait enabling aerobic or anaerobic respiration, depending on environment
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Literally means "optional"; an adjective used to describe that an environmental factor is optionally (not necessarily) required for an organism to grow For example, a facultative anaerobe can normally grow in the presence of oxygen but alternatively, it can also grow without oxygen
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Able to live under widely different environmental conditions (especially either aerobically or anaerobically)
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A group of microorganisms which prefer or preferentially use molecular oxygen when available, but are capable of suing other pathways for energy and synthesis if molecular oxygen is not available
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not compulsory; "facultative courses in the sciences" granting a privilege or permission or power to do or not do something; "a facultative enactment" able to exist under more than one set of conditions; "a facultative parasite can exist as a parasite or a saprophyte" of or relating to the mental faculties
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Not compulsory; optional, discretionary or elective
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not compulsory; "facultative courses in the sciences"
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The right of option The right of an underwriter to decide whether or not to accept a risk
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An organism that is capable of living under a variety of conditions
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having the power to live under different conditions either with or without oxygen
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able to exist under more than one set of conditions; "a facultative parasite can exist as a parasite or a saprophyte"
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