How do microrganism Tardigrade live in space?
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A special adaptation allows the tiny animal known as the tardigrade to curl up into a dry, lifeless ball and survive for decades
It turns out that the adaptation that allows tardigrades to live through these trying conditions is their ability to enter a dehydrated state that closely resembles death. When encountering environmental stresses, a tardigrade curls up into a dry, lifeless ball called a tun, reducing its metabolic activity to as low as .01 percent of normal levels. In order to do so, tardigrades produce trehalose, a special protective sugar that forms a gel-like medium that suspends and preserves the organelles and membranes that make up the animal's cell
As a tun, a tardigrade can survive for decades or even longer; once immersed in water, the body returns to a normal metabolic state over the course of a few hours.
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