Highly resistant thick walled spores produced by bacterial cells during unfavourable conditions are called as

Endospores

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Heterocyst

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Gemmules

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Zoospores

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The correct option is D Endospores
A_ Endospores are highly resistant to very high and very low temperature. Under unfavorable conditions cytoplasm shrinks and gets rounded and around it a hard protective three layer is formed known as endospore. When favorable conditions come outer layer rupture and active bacterial cell come out

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