Osmoconformers survive changes in salinity by:
A) Maintaining the salinity of their body fluids constantly.
B) Moving up and down the water column in order to spend most of the day in the salt wedge.
C) Pumping water in as salinity decreases.
D) Allowing the salinity of their body fluids to vary with that of the surrounding water.
E) Increasing the amounts of salts in their body fluids no matter what the salinity of the surrounding water is.
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