Explain the correlation between body mass and metabolic rate. be sure to include information and data presented in the lab in your answer.

In general, the smaller an organism's size, the faster its metabolic rate will be. While this is not a hard and fast rule, it holds true the majority of the time. Take an elephant and a rate for example. Elephants, on average, have a metabolic rate that is 10 times slower than that of a rat.