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What are Conformers?

Why they haven’t evolved mechanisms for temperature regulation or osmoregulation.

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Conformers are those organism, which change their body temperature, osmolarity etc. according to the external ‘environmental conditions.

(1) During the course of evolution, the costs and benefits of maintaining a constant internal environment are taken into consideration, when it is not advantageous, the organisms have not evolved mechanisms to maintain homeastasis.

(2) Heat loss or gain is a function of surface area and hence very small animals are not found in polar region i.e. they have become distributed according to the external conditions.

(3) Similarly aquatic animals, that are conformers can change the osmolarity of their body fluid according to the surroundings.

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