BIL 360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Golf Cart, Calorie, Indirect Calorimetry

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Four forms of energy important to anial physiology. Mechanical energy: organized motion (limbs, blood) Ingested food not necessarily translated into absorbable energy physiological work inside the body: biosynthesis. Production of organic compounds such as skin cells, milk, hair, and gametes that are released from the body: maintenance. Circulation, respiration, nervous system coordination, motility of gut, tissue repair: generation of external work. Mechanical energy of external work: leaves as heat, chemical energy, or external work. Energy converted to heat, external work is said to be consumed. Heat cannot be used to do physiological work. Rate at which an animal consumes energy = metabolic rate. Chemical energy to external work and heat. Measured in calories or joules per unit time: heat production, calorie = amount of heat it takes to raise the temp of 1 g of water by one degree c, calorie = 1000 calories. Metabolic rate is measured directly or indirectly.

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