Examples of 'free-living' in a sentence

Meaning of "free-living"

Free-living means to be able to live independently without being confined or controlled
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  • (of an organism) That lives independently of other organisms rather than part of a symbiotic or parasitic relationship

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Free-living chemoautotrophic microorganisms at hydrothermal vents.
Reproduction presumably involves free-living larvae.
Free-living condition with minimal interference.
Frequency of embedded shot in free-living waterfowl.
Name a free-living bacterium capable of fixing.
Sylvacaecilia grandisonae has free-living larval stage.
They are free-living relatives of the parasitic trypanosomes.
Panagrolaimus detritophagus is a terrestrial free-living nematode roundworm.
Involving a free-living stage and multiple hosts.
Genitalium is the smallest known free-living bacterium.
Fungi are free-living saprobes and are extremely common in nature.
These nematodes are mostly free-living marine animals.
These are free-living organisms found mostly in fresh water.
The larvae of most species are free-living predators.
The acanthamoeba is a free-living protozoa widely distributed in the environment.

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Common in ports and coastal lagoons where it is free-living.
Euleeides is a free-living marine flagellate.
Publication of the first complete genome of a free-living organism.
The group includes free-living and commensal species.
Bacteria were in aggregates or free-living.
Subjects were assessed in a free-living condition using accelerometers.
The chances you are taking loving a free-living man.
There are no native or free-living reptiles or amphibians on the island.
Free-living birds are considered a potential source of pathogens for livestock.
It is one quarter of all free-living bison in the world.
Free-living domestic cats tend to form small to large colonies.
Paralarva is the first free-living stage for cephalopods.
Among the inhabitants of the dune is a colony of free-living parrots.
Mycoplasms are the smallest free-living agents of disease in humankind.
Chiggers are the parasitic larval stages of these free-living mites.
Mycoplasmas are the smallest free-living agents of disease in man.
Free-living pigs of any breed will hereafter be referred to as wild pigs.
Hymenopterans include both free-living and parasitic species.
Free-living marine nematodes are important and abundant members of the meiobenthos.
The bacterium in the soil is free-living and motile.
Rhodoliths are free-living calcareous seaweeds that display threedimensional structures.
Phaeocystis can exist as either free-living cells or colonies.
The free-living diazotrophs contribute little fixed nitrogen to agricultural crops.
Mycoplasmas are the smallest known free-living life forms.
Predators are those free-living animals that feed on other animals.
First we measured seasonal changes in the gonads of free-living goldfinches.
Most spirochaetes are free-living and anaerobic, but there are numerous exceptions.
Daily ingestion of alginate reduces energy intake in free-living subjects.
Mycoplasms are the smallest free-living agents of disease in human kind.
Methods for mutagenesis are well established for free-living nematodes.
Not only fish and free-living organisms can ingest microplastics.
The nymphal and adult stages are free-living in the soil.
Larvae are never free-living and develop entirely within the grain.
An increasing amount of crop damage is also being ascribed to free-living nematodes e . g.
They may be free-living or found as colonies associated with certain species of fish.

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