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They are adapted with a resistant outer covering so that they aren't damaged by the stomach acid, and have no digestive tract because they absorb food directly from the stomach where is is all broken down anyway.

And just for the person who edited this before me everything is adapted in some way, if they weren't they'd either be extinct or the same as the first microbes

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