Evaluation · Q26
Q.Why are some organisms called as eurythermals and some others as stenohaline?
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →Step 1. The chapter defines eurythermal organisms as those which can tolerate a wide range of temperature fluctuations (e.g. Zostera, a marine angiosperm, and Artemisia tridentata).
Step 2. It defines stenohaline organisms as those which can withstand only a small range of salinity (e.g. plants of estuaries).
Step 3. The prefix 'eury-' always signals broad tolerance and 'steno-' always signals narrow tolerance, applied to whichever factor is named — temperature (eurythermal/stenothermal) or salinity (euryhaline/stenohaline), and similarly for habitat, water, food and depth. …
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