Question

What are the different habitats of microbes how do they survive in unfavourable conditions ?

Answer 1

Answer:

They can survive anywhere even in our body too.

They behave non living in unfavorable confitions and again start growing when there is favourable conditions for them.

Answer 2

Bacteria have some amazing survival mechanisms incorporated into their genome. They produce a diverse group of enzymes and proteins which help them overcome the adversity. They produce both "Heat Shock" and "Cold Shock" proteins which protect the bacterial cell from extreme heat and cold respectively.