Acts as an internal timer and makes animals nocturnal or diurnal innate behavior
survival beahior

biological clock

learned behavior

Circadian rhythm, or circadian clock, is an internal biological clock that regulates sleeping and feeding patterns, as well as a whole host of other biological functions in all living organisms. Organisms most active in the daytime are diurnal, humans included, whereas nocturnal organisms come alive at night.

answer: do

the 'italicized phrase' is a noun clause that is used as a direct object.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.