Revise: Metabolism in conformers and regulatorsConformers and regulators
Conformers’ internal environment depends on the external environment. Regulators control their internal environment through their metabolism. Both must regulate their temperature to maintain optimum metabolic rate.
The maintaining of an organism's metabolic rate is affected by abiotic factors such as temperature, pHScale of acidity or alkalinity. A pH (power of hydrogen) value below 7 is acidic, a pH value above 7 is alkaline. and salinityThe saltiness of a body of water, which may become higher in areas of high evaporation
Organisms can be categorised into two broad groups – conformers and regulators.
conformers - dependent upon the changes in the external environment
regulators - can control their internal environment regardless of external environmental change
