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How do facultative aerobic bacteria respire?

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A facultative aerobe is an organism that makes atp by aerobic respiration if oxygen is present, but is capable of switching to fermentation or anaerobic respiration if oxygen is absent.

An obligate aerobe by contrast, cannot make ATP in the absence of oxygen, and obligateanaerobes die in the presence of oxygen

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