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Certainly, cold-blooded vertebrates can freeze to death. Few organisms can survive if their body temperature falls below freezing. The expanding ice crystals inside cells will break the cell membranes, killing the cell, and if the cells die, the multi-cellular organism also dies. Some animals get around this problem by using a kind of anti-freeze inside their cells.

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