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(1)The adaptations to suit desert life are called desert adaptations.The animals like camel living in deserts show physiologivcal adaptations such as losing minimum water through urine.(2)Water is stored in muscles,water cells of stomach and connective tissues of the hump.(3)In the kidney,there is longer loop of henle in the nephrons for more reabsorption of water.
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