The Effect of External Temperature on the Efficiency of Metabolic Activity

ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION RESULTS DISCUSSION

Majority of the organisms (biological systems) around the world, especially Moreover, in our study, we discovered that optimal environmental
Have you ever thought about how such vast life on earth complex animals including ourselves greatly depend on various The results collected through the logger pro, online tool that detected and plotted temperature can significantly increases essential internal body
persists and how the surrounding environment may environmental factors to facilitate, monitor and and more importantly speed respiration rate values indicating effective metabolism of the mealworms reaction rates like reaction rate of metabolism being one of the most
greatly contribute to abundant life on earth? Have you up different internal body processes/reactions to allow for survival and submerged in a two-litre container of water at two temperatures of 20 °C and 30°C vital body reactions for life to persist as it allows us to obtain and use
ever thought about how tremendously you and I and the optimal body functioning. Think about energy for example, a crucial revealed a significant increase in metabolic rate by nearly double with the 10°C energy to maintain a state of homeostasis in our bodies preventing
countless organisms around us and across the world component without which life on earth cannot persist. Energy is primarily increase in temperature from 20 °C and 30°C. Such a significant increase in things like fevers and allowing us to generate motion to walk, talk,
depend on external/environmental factors to survive and derived from the break down of food molecules that organisms like ourselves metabolic rate of the mealworms at a higher temperature strongly supports the dance etc. To constructively determine this, we measured the effect
optimally function? More specifically have you ever consume through a process called metabolism, where obtained energy is hypothesis of temperature being an independent determinant of the rate at which of temperature on the rate at which internal body (physiological)
thought about how factors like changing environmental converted to usable energy, stored and used to perform all essential body internal body processes like metabolic activity take place. The results more processes take place, we narrowed our experiment to a examine a
temperature may influence how well our bodies function functions allowing for a wide range of functions like maintaining internal explicitly show how temperature even more greatly affects/alters the rate of certain type of internal body process in a selected group of animals
and how efficiently internal body reactions/ processes body parameters, exerting muscular force to maintain posture and most internal body processes in cold blooded animals like the mealworms we tested given the various processes that occur in different animals based on
importantly to produce motion allowing animals to walk and go about their because of their primary dependence on environmental factors like temperature to different body needs/demands and the various ways their bodies
take place? Have you recognized how cold external
day all of which allow for life as we know it. Well, the effective and efficient regulate body temperature. Cold blooded animals lack the ability to maintain function to maintain body temperature and other homeostatic
temperature make temporarily make our extremities turn
performance of vital processes like metabolism deriving and releasing usable thermal homeostasis, and as a result rely on changes in the surrounding processes. Hence, we specifically tested the effect of surrounding
numb and how hot environmental temperature makes us
energy for work, is one of the many internal body (physiological) processes environment, thus, mathematically, the data of metabolic rate almost doubling with external temperature on the rate of respiration that is the key
feel instantly dehydrated? If you haven’t, it’s likely
that strongly rely on environmental factors like temperature to speed up its the 10°C increase in temperature, not only generally supports the idea that the rate component of metabolic activity, providing the body with the
because warm blooded (endothermic) animals like of internal body process like metabolic rate increases as temperature increases but necessary usable energy to facilitate all essential functions in the
ourselves and many other complex animals quickly performance supporting survival and optimal functioning of various
organisms. Additionally, among the various organisms that rely on external it specifically reveals the significant effect of temperature on the rate at which body of animals and specifically cold-blooded animals like the
adjust internal body temperature to the required range metabolic activity takes place in cold blooded animals. mealworms we tested due to their greater dependence on
regardless of what the external temperature may be via factors, animals that are coldblooded scientifically known as
poikilothermic/exothermic animals more heavily, if not entirely rely on environmental factors like temperature. The results of this
processes like thermoregulation that works to regulate experiment revealed an average of doubled respiration rate indicating
external factors like temperature to determine the rate at which necessary
body temperature and prevent deviation from its normal doubled rate of metabolic activity due to an increase in
internal body processes or reactions take place due to an absence of body
range. This body mechanism maintaining temperature environmental temperature of 10 °C meaning every 10°C increase in
mechanisms that function in regulating change or preventing significant
further supports effective and efficient performance of temperature nearly doubles the rate of this essential internal body
deviation from normal range of factors/parameters like temperature in the
critical body processes like metabolic activity by body. Hence, given that majority organisms like complex animals process in coldblooded animals like mealworms. Additionally, based
speeding up its reaction rate. What about coldblooded significantly depend on external factors to effectively and efficiently perform on this data of respiration rates at both temperatures, mean metabolic
animals, however? Coldblooded animals, differ from essential body functions/processes, we conducted an experiment narrowed to rate (ppm/O2/min/gram) was calculated by the formula R2/R1 which
warm blooded animals in the sense that they lack certain determining the effect of a single environmental factor on a particular body represents mean metabolic rate at 30 °C divided by mean metabolic
body mechanisms like thermoregulation, to regulate process in a selected group of animals which was the effect of external rate at 20 °C resulting in a mean metabolic rate of 198.71
body temperature or prevent deviation from its normal temperature on the efficient performance of metabolic activity, the break ppmO2/min/gram at 20 °C and 308.84 ppmO2/min/gram at 30 °C
range in response to variation in external temperature. As down of food which is converted into usable energy via chemical reactions in more clearly revealing the increase of respiration rate/metabolic
a result, regulation of internal body temperature in mealworms (Tenebrio molitor), a cold-blooded animal relying entirely on activity by nearly double its initial rate with a 10 °C increase in
coldblooded animals entirely relies on external external factors like temperature to facilitate and speed up body processes and external temperature. This outcome further reveals external
temperature to perform and more importantly speed up reactions. More specifically metabolic activity is a complex process that temperature to be an effective reaction rate catalyst which more
important functions within their bodies. Temperature is describes the sum of chemical reactions within an organism to maintain and strongly supports that idea that external factors like temperature
an essential factor that most organisms largely depend sustain life. This complex internal body process collectively largely impact the rate and efficiency of such critical internal body
on. Thereby, the rate/speed at which essential internal manages/facilitates extraction of nutrients from broken down food which is processes like metabolism.
converted to usable energy via cellular respiration in the form of adenosine All in all, testing and measuring the effect of temperature on
body processes/reactions such as cellular respiration, the
triphosphate (ATP) necessary for cellular functions and animal growth. Thus, metabolic activity in mealworms not only helped us more strongly
sum of reactions in metabolism also greatly rely on
metabolic activity is an internal body processes that essentially refers to the support/prove that temperature is detrimental to the rate at which
temperature changes. As temperature increases or
respiration rate of an organism measured in respiration rate per unit mass processes like respiration, a key component of metabolic activity
decreases within a certain range, the rate at which
(e.g., grams) of respiring tissue. As temperature increases or decreases, occur, but more specifically the outcome of this experiment allowed
internal body processes or reactions take place also us to interpret the significant effect of temperature on coldblooded
accordingly increase or decrease. internal body processes like metabolic rate is expected to increase or decrease
accordingly. Hence, measuring metabolic rate as a result of changing external animals that heavily rely on environmental factors. The results of
temperature is crucial as it gives us a thorough understanding of the effect of this experiment effectively support and fulfills the primary objective
Given this dependance suggesting that temperature is an of determining the plausible impact of temperature on an internal
temperature on the efficiency of internal body processes like metabolic
independent determinant of the rate at which internal
body processes take place, to effectively study the impact
activity important for maintenance of abundant life. CONCLUSIONS
body process like metabolic activity and on a larger scale allows us
to understand the importance of optimal temperature increasing
of external factors like environmental temperature on efficiency of metabolic activity in complex life forms allowing for
internal body processes and more importantly the rate at METHODS AND MATERIALS life on earth to persist and thrive.
which they occur at in relation to this animal physiology
This experiment of determining the effect of varying external
course, we conducted an experiment focused on a certain temperatures on the rate and efficiency of a highly important internal
type of internal body process in a selected group of The
, results from this experiment where we tested rate of metabolic activity
body process called metabolism in a coldblooded animal, mealworm in mealworms at 20°C and 30°C support the hypothesized relationship
animals. We tested the effect of external temperature on (Tenebrio molitor), was effectively performed by submerging a tube between temperature and rate of metabolic activity which revealed a
the rate of metabolic activity in meal worms (Tenebrio containing two grams of mealworms (Tenebrio molitor) in a two- significant increase in metabolic rate with a 10°C increase in temperature
Molitor), cold blooded (exothermic) animal that relies litre container at two different temperatures of water which served as greatly supporting the correlation between temperature being an
entirely on external factors like temperature to effectively their surrounding environment. As the falcon tube containing two environmental factor that increases reaction rates like metabolic rate being a
and efficiently perform internal body processes. More grams of mealworms was effectively submerged in a two-litre critical internal body process. More specifically, the data supports the strong
specifically, we tested this to see if increased external container of water temperature at 20°C increased to 30°C, an oxygen dependent-independent relationship between changing environmental
temperature within a certain range serves as an enzyme Table 1. Label in 24pt Arial.
gas sensor was tightly placed and secured into the falcon tube of factors like temperature and rate of internal body processes in cold blooded
influencing the rate of metabolism essential for obtaining mealworms to measure their respiration rate which is the key animals. On a larger scale we can use this outcome to better understand a
and releasing energy to maintain and sustain life as we component representing the sum of reactions in metabolic activity as crucial aspect of animal physiology and how the external environment
know it. a result of the surrounding environmental temperature. Before works synergistically with internal body processes to facilitate important
measuring respiration rate of the mealworms as a result of the functions making life as we know it possible!
Furthermore, testing the dependence of mealworm amount of oxygen gas consumed, to allow for the most accurate
metabolic activity rate on temperature allowed us to results, we waited for a 5-minute acclimation period for steady-state
examine the influence of external factors like conditions to be reached and for the oxygen gas sensor to
temperature on the rate of critical body procedures like equilibrate. Once the 5-minute acclimation period commenced,
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