2007-01-02 11:16:18 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
You ARE controlling your pulse and respiration (or at least your brain is); you just don't have to think about it while it's being done.
Automatic responses such as these are controlled by the cerebellum and the medulla/brainstem.
2007-01-02 12:21:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The muscles you can command to work are VOLUNTARY MUSCLES. Your heart is a muscle. Do you have to remember to tell it to beat? Heart, lungs and brain are involuntary muscles.
2007-01-02 19:27:48 · answer #2 · answered by jamaica 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
their involuntary actions that your body performs. if you don't get these little jobs done, you wont be able to live. its involuntary because if you had to do all those things, like remember to blink, breath, and take your hand away from hot water, then we'd have no time to do anything else. that's just how our body works
2007-01-02 19:22:43 · answer #3 · answered by 19 year old girl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋