- Look up
obligate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. As an adjective,
obligate means "by necessity" (antonym facultative) and is used
mainly in biology...
- of
obligately anaerobic fungal genera include the
rumen fungi Neocallimastix, Piromonas, and Sphaeromonas.
Aerobic respiration Fermentation Obligate aerobe...
- animals, most fungi, and
several bacteria are
obligate aerobes.
Examples of
obligately aerobic bacteria include Mycobacterium tuberculosis (acid-fast), Bacillus...
- An
obligate parasite or
holoparasite is a
parasitic organism that
cannot complete its life-cycle
without exploiting a
suitable host. If an
obligate parasite...
- 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...
-
without rest.
These species are
obligate ram
ventilators and
would presumably asphyxiate if
unable to move.
Obligate ram
ventilation is also true of some...
-
Obligate mutualism is a
special case of
mutualism where an
ecological interaction between species mutually benefits each other, and one or all species...
-
means that they
benefit each
other in some way.
Symbiosis can be
obligate (or
obligative),
which means that one, or both of the
organisms depend on each...
- 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...
- lost the ****ual
phase and are now
completely a****ual. Many
other cases of
obligate parthenogenesis (or gynogenesis) are
found among polyploids and hybrids...
