Aerobic

In biochemistry, reactions that need oxygen to happen or happen when oxygen is present.

Active in the presence of free oxygen, e.g. aerobic bacteria that can live in the presence of oxygen.

Life or biological processes that can occur only in the presence of oxygen.

Able to live, grow, or take place only where free oxygen is present.

A condition in which free (atmospheric) or dissolved oxygen is present in water. The opposite of anaerobic.

A life or process that occurs in and is dependent upon oxygen. See methanotrophic, anaerobic.