The teacher said 'frog is an ectotherm what did she mean?

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Ectotherm is an organism which regulate body temperature according to the surrounding by depending on environmental sources such as sunlight or a heated rock surface. As frog cannot regulated body temperature internally and have to rely on external sources, they are considered as ectotherm.

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An organism that regulates its body temperature largely by exchanging heat with its surroundings is termed as ectotherm.
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