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1) I am an animal that lets my body temperature change with ambient temperature

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1) I am an animal that lets my body temperature change with ambient temperature. I am therefore termed a _______________. As my environment heats up, my metabolic rate ___________________. 

a.     Homeotherm: increase linearly

b.     Ectotherm; remains unchanged

c.     Poikilotherm; increased linearly

d.     Homeotherm; increase exponentially

e.     Poikilotherm; increases exponentially

 

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Poikilotherm: An animal that varies its internal body temperature within a wide range of temperatures, usually as a result of variation in the environmental temperature.

In poikilotherms, metabolic rate increases with increasing temperature and an exponential increase in the rate of oxygen consumption is observed with an increase in temperature.