Background information: A static respirometer can be used to measure
Question -It is common to stop feeding animals for 12 – 24 hours before they are used in metabolic rate trials. Why is this done?
Animals are usually fasted for some time before running metabolic tests on them to deplete them of the glucose reserves in the body. This causes the metabolic switch. This also causes a decrease in the basal metabolic rate. This is also thought to improve the responsiveness towards the stimuli in the experiment.
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