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Obligate meaning
To bind, compel, constrain, or oblige by a social, legal, or moral tie. | To cause to be grateful or indebted; to oblige. | To commit (money, for example) in order to fulfill an obligation.
Example sentences (20)
Mutualistic relationships may be either obligate for both species, obligate for one but facultative for the other, or facultative for both.
Obligate and facultative adaptations A question that may be asked about an adaptation is whether it is generally obligate (relatively robust in the face of typical environmental variation) or facultative (sensitive to typical environmental variation).
Article 9 of the ICCPR and Article 7 of the African Charter also obligate Tunisian authorities to respect the right to a fair trial.
Health officials said that leprosy is a chronic infection of the skin and peripheral nerves caused by the obligate intracellular bacterium, mycobacterium leprae, also known as “Hansen’s Bacillus”.
Horses are obligate nasal breathers, meaning they can only breathe through their nose, and their respiratory system lets them take two breaths per second.
Adoption of the registry does not obligate the village to create a TIF district or enter into a redevelopment agreement with a developer for TIF incentives, officials said.
Joining the co-op does not obligate members to purchase solar panels.
The share repurchase program has no time limit and does not obligate us to purchase any particular amount of our common stock.
It didn’t obligate Amazon to sign a lease, which would have been worth around $20 million.
This does not obligate anyone to enroll at RichmondCC.
The pact doesn't obligate Seoul and Tokyo to share information and exchanges apparently slowed as relations deteriorated amid nuclear negotiations between Washington and Pyongyang.
Signing up to be a foster parent also does not obligate someone to adopt, said Thomas.
A facultative anaerobe can tolerate anaerobic and aerobic conditions; however, an obligate anaerobe would die in the presence of even trace levels of oxygen.
All species are obligate endoparasites of animals, citation except Nephromyces, a symbiont in marine animals, originally classified as a chytrid fungus. citation Motile structures such as flagella or pseudopods are present only in certain gamete stages.
An alternative to contrasting nature and nurture focuses on "obligate vs. facultative" adaptations.
An estimated 48.7% of plant species are either dioecious or self-incompatible obligate out-crossers. citation It is also estimated that about 42% of flowering plants exhibit a mixed mating system in nature.
Animals that depend solely on animal flesh for their nutrient requirements are called obligate carnivores while those that also consume non-animal food are called facultative carnivores.
Both cetaceans and sirenians are fully aquatic and therefore are obligate water dwellers.
For example, the rewarding sweet taste of sugar and the pain of bodily injury are obligate psychological adaptations—typical environmental variability during development does not much affect their operation.
However, not all endosymbioses are obligate.