Biology
Answer
The advantages of having a nervous system are as follows:
- Keeps us informed about the outside world through sense organs.
- Enables us to remember, think and reason out.
- Controls and harmonizes all voluntary muscular activities such as running, holding, writing.
- Regulates involuntary activities such as breathing, beating of the heart without our thinking about them.
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