The Capacity of Most Ectotherms to Adjust Their Metabolic Rates

question 9

Multiple Choice

The capacity of most ectotherms to adjust their metabolic rates to the prevailing temperature such that the intensity of metabolism remains mostly unchanged is called

• A)poikilothermy.
• B)temperature compensation.
• C)metabolic ectothermy.
• D)homeothermy.
• E)behavioral thermoregulation.

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