BIOL316 Chapter 1

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Comparative animal physiology deals with all three of these levels:

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Comparative animal physiology deals with all three of these levels:

1) Ecology (ecosystems, communities, populations)
2) Physiology (Tissues, organs, cells, organelles, membranes)
3) Biochemistry (atoms, molecules)

Interactions between different types of animals and their environments.

Maintenance of relatively constant internal conditions

An advantage of ________________ is that it permits cells/tissues/ and metabolic activities to function independent of outside conditions

A disadvantage of _______________ is that it costs energy, especially when environmental conditions fluctuate

Internal body temperature increases or decreases with air temperature

Microenvironment or microhabitat

Place in an environment with particular physical and chemical conditions

Set of physical and chemical conditions characterizing a subset of the environment

Lahontan cutthroat trout (LCT)

Historically had nice populations in Walker Lake...over last sixty or so years more and more water has been pulled out of the river making the lake freshwater inflow reduced resulting in the lake becoming more and more salty, so the trout population is pretty minute now.
-Temperature determines their upper limit
-O2 determines their lower limit

A rapid change in temperature
E.G. going from lake surface to lake bottom