When food such as carbon or nitrogen become limited, highly resistant endospores form inside mother cell. These endospores usually occurs in Gram-positive bacteria and enable bacteria to lie dormant for extended periods, even centuries.
Endospores trapped in amber for 25 million years have germinated when placed in nutrient media.
Endospores of the bacterium Bacillus anthracis were used in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
Endospores
endospores
they do survive when the environment is wet
With the help of endospores, or thick-walled structures that help the bacteria survive harsh conditions.
Bacteria
By only inhabiting areas where the conditions remain constant and their environment isn't subject to frequent change.
endospores
they do survive when the environment is wet
they survive in harsh conditions
With the help of endospores, or thick-walled structures that help the bacteria survive harsh conditions.
Bacteria
Helicobacter Pylori
By only inhabiting areas where the conditions remain constant and their environment isn't subject to frequent change.
Endospores
endospores
There are a number of bacteria that DO survive in harsh environments be it pH or temperature extremes or an environment that is very salty. Bacteria that don't survive in harsh conditions usually lose cell wall integrity and break apart, or lose all their intercellular fluid and shrivel up.
An adaption.
It needs a warm damp place to live and breed.
Animals survive (and thrive) on the Galapagos islands because they have adapted to the conditions of their environment.