Is Microaerophilic facultative anaerobe?
Is Microaerophilic facultative anaerobe? Facultative anaerobes can use oxygen but do not need it for growth, as is the case with E. coli. There is also the group of microaerophilic bacteria such as Campylobacter that need oxygen to grow, albeit in much smaller amounts (1-2%) than in normal air. Is there a facultative aerobe? A facultative anaerobe 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 obligate anaerobes...