Mass-action ratio

... and therefore the excess calories are stored as fat deposits. Hence the ratio of lean muscle is reduced and the fat mass increases. Technically even if a person lost lean muscle mass and cut down on calories ...

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... physical trait that tells how much thermal energy and in what time a mass of some material can store/release (or so). This means a big mass of ... more efficiently (since a large body has a low surface area to volume ratio), and thus large animals would "overheat" if they had high ...

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... size of a cell has the effect of reducing the surface area to volume ratio. It's a balancing act, I suppose. High surface areas are useful for ... you want to keep the volume as small as practical to minimize the total mass of "stuff" you need to keep the cell going.

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... first comments, and not be mean. "predation rate" means the ratio of individuals killed by predators. Yes, more predators show up for ... to me. You are suggesting that a million (birds) in one large massed group loses fewer individuals than would happen in a million birds ...

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... or bacterial to mitochondrial, or mitochondrial to nucleic mammal. The mass-roosting and migration behavior is a very effective survival mechanism, as it decreases predation rates . The ...

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