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How do snails, seeds, bears, zooplanktons, fungi and bacteria adapt to conditions unfavourable for their survival ?

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Snails undergous aestivation .
Seeds adopt to unfavourable conditions by getting into the state of dormancy. Bears adopt to unfavourable conditions by hibernating and reducing their body metabolic activities by 75 %
Zooplanktons adapt to unfavourable condtions by entering· into diapause while fungi adopt to unfavourable conditions by reducing their metabolic rate and by forming thick-walled spores. Bacteria adapt to unfavourable conditions by forming endospores.
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