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How do some marine invertebrates and fish live under such high pressures and do they have any special enzymes?

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Following are the main adaptations:-

  • Lung-like swim bladders which help in maintaining buoyancy. Collapse of the swim bladders is prevented by maintaining internal gas pressure equivalent to that of outside.
  • Lungs are compressible (beaked whale) forcing the gases into the blood from where these gases can be released outside.
  • Presence of trimethylamine oxide (TMAO) that prevents the distortion and compression of proteins.
  • No nitrogen absorption: This prevents the development of nitrogen narcosis and decompression signals.

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