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PNB 2250 Exam 3 Questions and Answers – Updated 2024 Of the following, which is NOT a strategy by which endotherms generate internal heat: - Ans:- Panting The minimal metabolic activity required to maintain bodily functions in a mammal is known as the - Ans:-basal metabolic rate. Which of t...

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PNB 2250 Exam 3 Questions and Answers
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Of the following, which is NOT a strategy by which endotherms generate internal heat: - Ans:✔✔-

Panting


The minimal metabolic activity required to maintain bodily functions in a mammal is known as the -

Ans:✔✔-basal metabolic rate.


Which of the following thermoregulatory mechanisms can be used to restrict blood flow to the skin, and

thus decreases heat loss by keeping the warmed blood closer to the core of the body? - Ans:✔✔-

vasoconstriction


Poikilothermic ectotherms that live in thermally variable environments manage to maintain a relatively

stable body temperature. - Ans:✔✔-False


Which of the following statements is NOT true? - Ans:✔✔-Endotherms gain all their heat from internal,

biochemical reactions.


According to the second law of thermodynamics, as life become more organized the environment

becomes disorganized. - Ans:✔✔-True


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Which of the following is true for LARGER animals in comparison to SMALLER animals? - Ans:✔✔-Mass-

specific BMR is lower in larger animals, because of a low Surface Area:Volume ratio


With respect to thermal adaptation, amphibians are considered to be - Ans:✔✔-ectothermic


Almost all expended energy eventually becomes heat, in accordance with the: - Ans:✔✔-Second law of

thermodynamics


The transfer of energy from the sun to the earth is ____________ . - Ans:✔✔-radiation


Ectotherms are always poikilotherms, and endotherms are always homeotherms - Ans:✔✔-false


Metabolism is __________ . - Ans:✔✔-reactions that consume ATP




reactions that produce ATP




anabolic reactions




reactions that break molecules down into smaller molecules




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ALL OF THE ABOVE


Respiratory Quotient is ____________ . - Ans:✔✔-Ratio of CO2 produced / Oxygen consumed


Non-shivering thermogenesis, a strategy used by many small mammals involves: - Ans:✔✔-Oxidizing BAT

to produce heat


Temporal heterotherms such as the ____________ regulate heat by ____________ . - Ans:✔✔-

Hummingbird; going into daily torpor to reduce energy demands


The direct transfer of energy from objects of differing temperature that are in contact with each other is

_______________ . - Ans:✔✔-conduction


The swordfish's heater organ involves all of the following EXCEPT ___________ . - Ans:✔✔-Oxidation of

brown adipose tissue


The principal role of calcium in skeletal muscle contraction is to - Ans:✔✔-bind troponin, which in turn

permits tropomyosin to uncover the cross-bridge binding site on the thin filament.


A vertebrate motor unit is - Ans:✔✔-a motor neuron and the muscle fibers it innervates


When a skeletal muscle contracts, ___________ - Ans:✔✔-Actin filaments slide inward along myosin

filaments, making the I band more narrow




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