Higher metabolic rates during growth and development periods like adolescence and pregnancy are due to:
a. longer periods of rest
b. getting older
c. rapid bodily changes
d. the amount of food consumed

Respuesta :

Two of the characteristics of all living things are 1) growth and development (as seen in adolescents and pregnancy) and 2) maintaining homeostasis --- to maintain homeostasis during these periods of rapid growth and development, metabolism must be upkept as well. They are all related.