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- noun Plural form of
aerobe .
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Examples
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The bacteria on the plant material when harvested are largely aerobes.
Chapter 8 1976
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The primary waste products of aerobes are water and carbon dioxide gas -- inoffensive substances.
Organic Gardener's Composting Steve Solomon
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"Count" the plates (delay the enumeration as long as possible) and estimate the number of spores of aerobes and anaerobes respectively present per gramme of the soil.
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In the first case, however, it is important that the cultivations should be made upon solid media, for if carried out in fluid media the aerobes multiplying in the upper layers of fluid render the depths completely anaerobic, and under these conditions the growth of the anaerobes will continue unchecked.
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This is not altogether correct; e. g., the temperature at which spores are best formed is constant for each bacterium, but varies with different species; again, aerobes require oxygen for sporulation, but anaerobes will not spore in its presence.
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The great majority of milk bacteria are either obligate or facultative aerobes.
Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying 1910
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While some species grow strictly under one condition or the other, and hence are _obligate_ aerobes or anaerobes, others possess the ability of growing under either condition and are known as
Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying 1910
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Some prokaryotes cannot grow in the absence of oxygen for cellular respiration and are called obligate aerobes.
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_All desirable organisms of decomposition are oxygen breathers or "aerobes.
Organic Gardener's Composting Steve Solomon
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