Sentence examples for survive dry from inspiring English sources

Perennial plants commonly survive dry times by becoming physiologically inactive.

Structural modifications allow certain specialized frogs to survive dry periods.

Other desert plants survive dry periods through underground organs such as bulbs, tubers, or rhizomes.

Statoblasts survive dry and freezing conditions and can initiate a new colony when favourable climatic conditions recur.

Another typical feature of desert floras is their large proportion of ephemeral plants, which survive dry periods as resistant, dormant seeds.

The abovementioned properties of forests are also true in the sub-humid climate of the Hungarian Great Plain where there is not enough precipitation to support woody vegetation; thus, trees survive dry periods by using groundwater (Ijjász 1939; Magyar 1961).

The eggs stick to the sides of containers and can survive drying out.

He proposed turning it into glassy particles around a matrix of trehalose, the sugar that allows brine shrimp cysts to survive dried out for years but hatch into wriggling creatures in seawater.

If being able to survive drying out is so useful for land animals, why don't they all do it?

You might expect that tardigrades would use this trick to survive drying, but according to Boothby, only some species seem to make trehalose.

"Since water bears can survive drying, they must have tricks for preventing or fixing the damage that cells like ours would die from," says Boothby.