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Many microorganisms are facultative anaerobes or obligate aerobes. An obligatory aerobe needs oxygen to make ATP (adenosine triphosphate) and will die without it, but a facultative anaerobe uses oxygen to make ATP if it is available, but can also make ATP and survive without it if necessary.
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