Look up: Microaerophile

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   Microaerophile
   `Microaerophilic` organisms are a specific type of microorganism (especially bacteria) that requires oxygen to survive, but requires environments containing lower levels of oxygen than are present in the atmosphere (~20% concentration). Many microphiles are also capnophiles, as they require an elevated concentration of carbon dioxide. (In the laboratory they can be easily cultivated in a candle jar, a container into which a lit candle is introduc...
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   microaerophile
   microaerophilic, microaerophile, microaerophily 1. Thriving in a free oxygen concentration significantly less than that of the atmosphere. 2. A reference to an environment in which the partial pressure of oxygen is significantly below normal atmospheric levels but which is not fully anaerobic. 3. A tiny organism; such as, a bacterium, which is capable of living in an environment where there i...
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