a) ‘‘Organisms may be conformers or regulators.’’ Explain this statement and give one example of each.
(b) Why are there more conformers than regulators in the animal world?

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a) Conformers are those organisms that continuously change their internal temperature in accordance with external temperature. E.g., reptiles and amphibians are conformers.
Regulators are those organisms that maintain their body temperature despite changes in external environment. E.g., mammals are regulators.

b) Maintaining the body temperature is an energy-expensive process so conformers are less in number than regulators.

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