KROK 1 2018 – Question 60 · KROK (Medicine) · Biology
Representatives of a certain human population can be characterized by elongated body, height variability, decreased volume of muscle mass, increased length of limbs, decreased size and volume of rib cage, increased perspiration, decreased indices of base metabolism and fat synthesis. What type of adaptive evolution is it?
- A. Moderate
- B. Arctic
- C. Intermediate
- D. Tropical
- E. Mountain
Hint
Consider what the body proportions, sweating and low basal metabolism do to the surface-to-volume ratio and to heat exchange with the environment.
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