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
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
On the issue of facultative reinsurance, whereby it insures bundles of risk in a job lot, Swiss Re said it expected to finalise a policy for the oil and gas sector in 2023.
From Reuters ● Mar. 17, 2022
The great majority of bacteria, however, while they prefer to have oxygen, are able to live without it, and are called facultative anaërobes.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
