facultative in a sentence
Examples
- It is a facultative anaerobe, it can therefore use alcoholic respiration in aerobic conditions.
- Fish can be obligate or facultative shoalers.
- Proposition 7 introduced a form of optional ( or facultative ) referendum on ordinary statutes.
- Abundant evidence indicates that facultative sexual eukaryotes tend to undergo sexual reproduction under stressful conditions.
- "Victavallis vadensis " is a facultative anaerobe, like most gut microbes.
- Following fire it is a facultative resprouter sending up an epicormic sprout from its lignotuber.
- It is a lethal facultative parasite of the terrestrial gastropods ( slugs and snails ).
- These are known as facultative saprotrophs.
- Such species are considered facultative freshwater cetaceans as they can use both marine and freshwater environments.
- Tobacco hornworms are facultative specialists; the larvae can grow and develop on any host plants.