facultative
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Some require fertilization to produce seeds, while others can also reproduce without fertilization, a process known as facultative agamospermy.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 20, 2025
For the first time, scientists have induced facultative parthenogenesis, a form of asexual reproduction, in an animal that usually reproduces sexually.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2023
Some species, termed facultative parthenogens, alternate between sexual and asexual reproduction.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 9, 2023
Sketch a graph that predicts the distribution of aerobic, facultative anaerobic and obligatory anaerobic bacteria along the length of the entire intestine based on these parameters.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Similarly the saphrophytes are classed as obligatory saphrophytes and facultative parasites.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley
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