They survive without water by entering a special mode, otherwise called as shriveling. They can lose even 95% of water in their body and still live, even though they would look like dead plants, they would actually be alive. In the absence of water, tardigrades use a sugar called trehalose, which becomes their source of life until they find some water.
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The correct answer would be C) It increases survival for cuckoos, but decreases survival of the other birds.
The host chicks often face lots of competition from the cuckoo chicks in terms of food as well as space. It makes it difficult for the host chicks to survive.
It has also been found that cuckoo chicks beg to be fed more intensely due to which host chick die due to starvation.
In addition, in some species of cuckoo, cuckoo chicks remove host eggs from the nest within few days of hatching.
I think the answer is Specialized cells!