Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A dormant state induced by unfavorable environmental conditions such as high or low temperature, reduced oxygen, or drought, in which an organism's metabolic activity is reduced to an imperceptible level.
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- noun biology A
state oflife , entered by someorganisms , in which allmetabolic activity is temporarilyhalted
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- noun a state in which an animal's metabolic activities come to a reversible standstill
Etymologies
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Examples
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The insects had survived through the millennia thanks a little trick known as cryptobiosis, which is employed by some simple creatures in real life to handle tough times.
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The main characteristic that allowed un-hatched "Sea-Monkeys" to be cheaply packaged, shipped, and handled is that in easily prepared environments, they enter cryptobiosis, a natural state of suspended animation.
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Sea-Monkeys have a biological life cycle of one year, but thanks to their ability to enter cryptobiosis, a Sea-Monkey colony could sustain itself for two years.
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Hello, go to wikipedia, type cryptobiosis, and you'll find some interesting animal.
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But you don’t have to crack open an mummy’s tomb to come face-to-face with cryptobiosis.
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The roughly millimeter-long worms were able to resist extreme low temperatures by entering a dormant state called cryptobiosis, a process researchers at the institute have been trying to understand.
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"The researchers, based in Singapore, Denmark and Poland, chose a tardigrade to try to entangle because of its ability to enter long hibernation to withstand things like searing heat, freezing cold, extraordinarily high pressures, and high levels of ionizing radiation. This hibernation is called cryptobiosis; the animal desiccates, shedding the moisture from its body, and only reanimates when conditions become more manageable."
-- "Scientists Tried to Quantum Entangle a Tardigrade" by Isaac Schultz (https://gizmodo.com/scientists-tried-to-quantum-entangle-a-tardigrade-1848377578)
January 19, 2022