When you feel cold, there are sensors in your skin that tell the brain you need to warm up. The brain sends messages, by way of nerves, to the muscles in your body causing them to contract and relax very quickly resulting in a shiver. The movement of the muscles during a shiver generates heat which can be used to warm up the surrounding tissues. Which characteristic (s) of life is being represented during this action?

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Jakob Bennett

28 July, 18:11

When you feel cold, there are sensors in your skin that tell the brain you need to warm up. The brain sends messages, by way of nerves, to the muscles in your body causing them to contract and relax very quickly resulting in a shiver. The movement of the muscles during a shiver generates heat which can be used to warm up the surrounding tissues. Which characteristic (s) of life is being represented during this action?

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Isabell Fritz · Answer 1

Shivering is one trigger reaction from the brain which causes your muscles contract and expand in speedy bursts as an impulse to warm your body to protect it from illness and hypothermia.

This characteristic of life is known as maintaining a balance inside the body or cells of organisms and called homeostasis.