What is basal metabolic rate?
a. the number of calories you need to maintain your body's processes when resting and fasting
b. the rate at which your heart pumps to deliver blood throughout the body
c. the number of calories you need to maintain your body's processes when working out and performing other strenuous activities
d. the process of transferring heat from a warmer object to a cooler object
e. the chemical reactions that are collectively capable of generating a lot of heat

C is the correct answer when you rest you burn calories too working out and performing other strenuous activities anything that you do that is moving is losing calories and sleeping burns calories by the ways the body starts to shut down to rest and calm but i feel just laying down does do something but maybe not.

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fertilization, pictured in figure 24.23a is the process in which gametes (an egg and sperm) fuse to form a zygote. the egg and sperm each contain one set of chromosomes. to ensure that the offspring has only one complete diploid set of chromosomes, only one sperm must fuse with one egg. in mammals, the egg is protected by a layer of extracellular matrix consisting mainly of glycoproteins called the zona pellucida. when a sperm binds to the zona pellucida, a series of biochemical events, called the acrosomal reactions, take place. in placental mammals, the acrosome contains digestive enzymes that initiate the degradation of the glycoprotein matrix protecting the egg and allowing the sperm plasma membrane to fuse with the egg plasma membrane, as illustrated in figure 24.23b. the fusion of these two membranes creates an opening through which the sperm nucleus is transferred into the ovum. the nuclear membranes of the egg and sperm break down and the two haploid genomes condense to form a diploid genome.

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