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
"Certain temperature conditions may foster all-female populations, which can be overcome through facultative parthenogenesis," he said.
From Salon • Jun. 10, 2023
Some species, termed facultative parthenogens, alternate between sexual and asexual reproduction.
From Scientific American • Jun. 9, 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
Ewart's important discovery that some of these lipochrome pigments occlude oxygen, while others do not, may have bearings on the facultative anaerobism of these organisms.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
