Definition & Meaning | English word AEROTOLERANT
AEROTOLERANT
Definitions of AEROTOLERANT
- (biology, of an anaerobic micro-organism) Able to tolerate the presence of air (specifically oxygen).
Number of letters
12
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using AEROTOLERANT in a Sentence
- Streptococcus pyogenes is a species of Gram-positive, aerotolerant bacteria in the genus Streptococcus.
- Lactobacillus is a genus of gram-positive, aerotolerant anaerobes or microaerophilic, rod-shaped, non-spore-forming bacteria.
- All metamonads are anaerobic (many being aerotolerant anaerobes), and most members of the four groups listed above are symbiotes or parasites of animals, as is the case with Giardia lamblia which causes diarrhea in mammals.
- Where obligate aerobes require oxygen to grow, obligate anaerobes are damaged by oxygen, aerotolerant organisms cannot use oxygen but tolerate its presence, and facultative anaerobes use oxygen if it is present but can grow without it.
- fragilis is an aerotolerant, anaerobic chemoorganotroph capable of fermenting a wide variety of glycans available in the human gut microenvironment including glucose, sucrose, and fructose.
- This allows the differentiation of obligate aerobes, obligate anaerobes, facultative anaerobes, microaerophiles, and aerotolerant organisms.
- She isolated one type of protozoan, aerotolerant anaerobes, from the digestive tract of Haemopis sanguisuga during this period.
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