AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Hibernation is a way animals conserve energy to survive adverse weather conditions or lack of food. It involves physiological changes such as a drop in body temperature and slowed metabolism.

Detailed explanation-2: -Diapause is a dormant stage in the development of an organism. Hibernation is the reduction of metabolic activities in an organism. Diapause occurs during any time of the year. Hibernation usually occurs during the winter months.

Detailed explanation-3: -During hibernation, body temperature drops to only a few degrees above ambient temperature. The suppression of whole-body energy expenditure is associated with regulated, but not passive, reduction of cellular metabolism.

Detailed explanation-4: -Torpor is a state of decreased physiological activity in an animal, usually marked by a reduced body temperature and metabolic rate. Torpor enables animals to survive periods of reduced food availability.

Detailed explanation-5: -Hibernation or “winter sleep” is the state of inactivity or low metabolic process animals perform during winter. Aestivation or “summer sleep”, on the other hand, is the low metabolic process by the animals during summer.