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Write a note on desert adaptations.

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1. The animals living in desert store water in muscles, connective tissue of the hump and water cells of stomach.
2. Animals show physiological adaptations such as losing minimum water through urine.
3. In camel, which is a desert animal, such types of adaptations are seen.
4. In the kidney, there are longer loops of Henle in the nephrons for more reabsorption of water.
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