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Which biological process helps detect changes in the environment and respond?

While walking in your backyard barefoot, you step on a thorn from a rose plant. As a result, you immediately cry out in pain. The biological characteristic that you just demonstrated is ( ).

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Receptors. Receptors are groups of specialized cells. They detect a change in the environment stimulus. In the nervous system this leads to an electrical impulse being made in response to the stimulus. Hope this helps!!!!

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