Question

As a bulleted list, using one to three complete sentences, summarize five things you learned from reading chapter one of the textbook. Do NOT answer based on class notes or non-textbook readings and do not guess.

Chapter one from Animal Physiology, 4th ed. Hill, Richard W., Wyse, Gordon A., & Anderson, Margaret. Sinauer Press: 2016. ISBN-10: 1605355941 (3rd edition works too).

please can you explain the answers or give a little bit of details

Answer 1

The first chapter of this book has

1. Animals and Environments: Function on the Ecological Stage.

It has subparts-

The Importance of Physiology
The Highly Integrative Nature of Physiology
Mechanism and Origin: Physiology's Two Central Questions
This Book's Approach to Physiology
Animals
Environments
Evolutionary Processes individual Variation and the Question of "Personalities" within a Population

What can be learned from this portion of the book is.

1. The mechanisms and origin of the animals that live in today's world have come through a series of adaptation and changes that they carry today. Their common function in terms of their body systems is designed well for their living and survival capacities. There are behavioral changes as well that has to go well with their bodily functions. How their internal organs are arranged and works are how they can adapt and live through their generation.

2. The mechanism of animals' internal organization is so well suited to the structural organization that is found in every living species. Their internal organization is more related to their body and its chemical functions as well as coordination throughout their body. Homeostasis is another mechanism that has been their defining factor for them to live and adjust to their environment which functions within their physical bodies.

3. Changes in animal physiology are bound to change based on their internal and external time frames. External time frames like short term acute change, long term chronic change, and alteration of gene frequencies (evolutionary changes) are responsible to influence their internal time frames like their development as well as their circadian rhythm (biological clock).

4. This planet earth has a great range of biodiversity. Where animals are living and how nature supports them is a cycle. It has a synergy of how the environment around them changes and their adaptation also influences nature. For example, their microenvironment is influential to their behavior, adaptation, growth, and living. Animals also can modify their own environments based on their adaptive nature.

5. The evolutionary process is very much important to understand the physiology and living of the animal species present on Earth. Various theories help or suggestions to us their adaptive nature, the ancestral route, and their progress as a whole species. There are various data that are taken into consideration for the accurate knowledge of their speciation. Especially, the modern-day molecular biology data, also morphological evidence is empirical in nature.