Metabolism

Question 1

Why does nody mass increase as metabolic rate increases?

Answer 1

as animals grow in size, their need for oxygen increases, as their overall cell number increases, therefore as BM increases, the MR also increasea (not 1:1)

Question 2

what is allometry

Answer 2

the relationship between physical body mass and physiological or morphometric characteristics

Question 3

What is Basal metabolic rate

Answer 3

Basal metabolic rate is collected when the animal is resting, post absorptive (not digesting or eating) and non-reproductive

unique to endotherms

also known as the metabolic rate of endotherms when they are in their thermoneutral zone

Question 4

What is standard metabolic rate

Answer 4

Equivalent to the BMR for ectotherms

they must be
resting
post-absorptive
non-reproductive
the temperature must remain consistent (due to high temp dependency)

Question 5

Kliebers law

Answer 5

MR= Bmass^0.75 (in energy per gram)