- Look up
obligate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. As an adjective,
obligate means "by necessity" (antonym facultative) and is used
mainly in biology...
- 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...
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Obligate anaerobes are
microorganisms killed by
normal atmospheric concentrations of
oxygen (20.95% O2).
Oxygen tolerance varies between species, with...
- An
obligate aerobe is an
organism that
requires oxygen to grow.
Through cellular respiration,
these organisms use
oxygen to
metabolise substances, like...
- An
obligate parasite or
holoparasite is a
parasitic organism that
cannot complete its life-cycle
without exploiting a
suitable host. If an
obligate parasite...
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Obligate mutualism is a
special case of
mutualism where an
ecological interaction between species mutually benefits each other, and one or all species...
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Obligate nasal breathing describes a
physiological instinct to
breathe through the nose (or
other forms of
external nasal p****ages,
depending on the species)...
- 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...
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individuals benefit.
Mutualistic relationships may be
either obligate for both species,
obligate for one but
facultative for the other, or
facultative for...
- In
moral philosophy,
deontological ethics or
deontology (from Gr****: δέον, 'obligation, duty' + λόγος, 'study') is the
normative ethical theory that the...
