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What does facultatively mean?

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Adverb
  1. In a facultative manner
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The isolates grow facultatively chemolithoautotrophically or obligately heterotrophically.
Among bats, larger species among the Pteropodidae often glide or soar, and use undulating flight facultatively.
Organisms belonging to the genus Aeromonas are facultatively anaerobic, Gram-negative rods possessing polar flagella.
However, some tetraploid lines are facultatively apomictic and an individual plant may set seed both apomictically and sexually.
Mycoplasma species are mostly facultatively anaerobic, colonial microorganisms that lack cell walls.
Insects such as ants, wasps and flies from the vicinity are attracted to these rewards and defend the plants facultatively against herbivores.

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