Answer
Alligator - The body temperature and metabolic rate would decrease.
Lion - The body temperature would stay the same; the metabolic rate would increase.
Work Step by Step
Alligators are ectotherms and lions are endotherms.
Campbell Biology (12th Edition)
by Jane B. Reece, Lisa A. Urry, Michael L. Cain, Steven A. Wasserman, Peter V. Minorsky
Published by
Pearson
ISBN 10:
0135188741
ISBN 13:
978-0-13518-874-3
Chapter 40 - 40.4 - Concept Check - Page 893: 3
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