How To Use Poikilothermic In A Sentence
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Amphibians are poikilothermic: their body temperatures adapt automatically to changes in their environment, without their noticing.
Boiling a Frog
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As evidenced by the articles in this volume, a recent increase in interest in the mating systems of poikilothermic vertebrates has focused primarily on fishes, a few amphibians, and squamate reptiles.
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General anesthesia inactivates the body's temperature regulating mechanism and transforms the homeothermic body into a poikilothermic body - one that is altered by the temperature of the environment.
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In poikilothermic animals temperature can be a major variable.
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Reptiles are poikilothermic, which means that they can not regulate heat internally (as opposed to birds and mammals which are homeothermic).
Reptile
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The political animal, the political observer and the political electorate are, like amphibians, poikilothermic - their own temperatures adjust to that of their environment, so that if a change is gradual enough, they won't even notice it.
Boiling a frog
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Reptiles are poikilothermic, which means that they can not regulate heat internally (as opposed to birds and mammals which are homeothermic).
Reptile
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As evidenced by the articles in this volume, a recent increase in interest in the mating systems of poikilothermic vertebrates has focused primarily on fishes, a few amphibians, and squamate reptiles.
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A few of these biosigns were, like those of all Gorn castes, endothermic or poikilothermic—dependent upon external factors for the regulation of body temperature.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire
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General anesthesia inactivates the body's temperature-regulating mechanism and transforms the homeothermic body into a poikilothermic body - one that is altered by the temperature of the environment.
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Because amphibians are poikilothermic, this unequal geographic distribution might have led to shorter generation times and higher metabolic rates in the evolution of neobatrachians.
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Amphibians are poikilothermic: their body temperatures adapt automatically to changes in their environment, with - out their noticing.
Boiling a frog
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Little is known about the physiological time of poikilothermic animals and we know nothing about the physiological time of modular organisms.
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Hogben & Kirk were trying to demonstrate that the body temperatures of animals like slugs and earthworms whose external surfaces are always wet are not necessarily in equilibrium with the temperature of their surroundings, despite the fact that they are poikilothermic or cold-blooded.
How to take a slug's temperature and what you can learn from it
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Predominantly this is because they concluded that – in view of its elongate shape and occurrence in cold waters – Caddy must be poikilothermic.
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