BIOL1012 Midterm: Midterm 3.pdf
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16. 1) consider the energy budgets for a human, an elephant, a penguin, a mouse, and a snake. The _____________ would have the highest total annual energy expenditure, and the ______________ would have the highest energy expenditure per unit body mass: elephant, mouse; b) elephant, human; c) human, penguin; d) mouse, snake, penguin, mouse. 16. 2) the least reliable indicator of animal metabolic rates are the amount of: food eaten; b) heat generated; c) o2 consumed; d) co2 produced; e) h2o consumed. 16. 3) continuous access to free energy is required for life because: energy cannot be transformed; b) energy cannot be created; c) energy transfers are efficient; d) entropy increases; e) a and b. 16. 5) an organism at equilibrium with its surroundings is: not exchanging free energy; b) balancing energy losses and gains; c) generating heat; d) dead; e) minimising the gain of entropy. 16. 7) organisms increase in complexity as they grow, resulting in a decrease in the entropy of an organism.
