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A zeitgeber (/ ˈ (t) s aɪ t ɡ eɪ b ər, ˈ z aɪ t-/ (T)SYTE-gay-bər, ZYTE-, German: [ˈtsaɪtˌɡeːbɐ]) is any external or environmental cue that entrains or synchronizes an organism's biological rhythms, usually naturally occurring and serving to entrain to the Earth's 24-hour light/dark and 12-month cycles.
Biological rhythms are endogenous; they persist even in the absence of environmental cues as they are driven by an internal mechanism, the circadian clock being the best characterized. Of the several possible cues, known as zeitgebers (German for 'time-givers'), which can contribute to entrainment of the circadian clock, light has the greatest ...
A circadian rhythm (/ s ər ˈ k eɪ d i ə n /), or circadian cycle, is a natural oscillation that repeats roughly every 24 hours.Circadian rhythms can refer to any process that originates within an organism (i.e., endogenous) and responds to the environment (is entrained by the environment).
Within each cycle, the time period during which the process is more active is called the acrophase. [4] When the process is less active, the cycle is in its bathyphase or trough phase. The particular moment of highest activity is the peak or maximum; the lowest point is the nadir. How high (or low) the process gets is measured by the amplitude.
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Endogenous: Growing or working from within an organism; intrinsic. Entrainment: The process an organism undergoes when synchronizing endogenous rhythms to a Zeitgeber. Free-Running Period (FRP): The length of time it takes for an organism's endogenous rhythm to repeat without Zeitgebers in constant conditions (LL or DD).