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Organisms with the highest urine
concentrations.
Answer: Mammalian desert organisms
Organ responsible for storing urine.
Answer: Urinary bladder
Marine invertebrates that do not regulate salt and
water balance.
Answer: Osmoconformers
A small, highly toxic molecule that results from the breakdown of amino acids and nucleic acids
Answer: Ammonia
In mammals, the main organ of excretion
Answer: What is the Kidney?
The starting reactants of nitrogenous wastes
Answer: What are amino acids and nucleic Acids?
Where urea forms
Answer: What is the Liver?
Bony fish that lose water osmotically because they
live in marine environments. (drink salt water & excrete
excess salt)
Answer: Osmoregulatory
In order of decreasing required energy to produce.
Answer: Ammonia, Urea, Uric Acid
Conducts urine from bladder to outside
Answer: What is the urethra?
A pigment produced in the liver from the breakdown
of hemoglobin.
Answer: What is bilirubin?
Glands that are associated with the
kidneys
Answer: What are adrenal glands?
Fish that have a greater salt concentration inside their
bodies
Answer: Freshwater fish
When excreted it has a very low solubility and virtually
no toxicity.
Answer: What is Uric Acid?
Desert frogs do this to restrict water loss.
Answer: Burrow
Where urine is produced.
Answer: What is the Nephron?
These organisms do not drink water & instead have a problem retaining ions.
Answer: Freshwater fish
The 3 main ways water in humans is lost.
List them.
Answer: Urine Production, Defecation, Sweating
Adaptation in camels for desert life to store fat.
Answer: What is a camel’s Hump?
Excreted as a white paste by birds.
Answer: What is Uric Acid?
Circumstance when fish have to make physiological changes to compensate for
changes in the environment.
Answer: Migrating fish
If people suffer from renal failure this could happen.
Answer: Fluid Retention (Edema)
The process by which water content and solute
concentration of bodily fluids is kept at homeostasis.
Answer: What is osmoregulation?
Excreted by mammals, some fish, and most amphibians.
Answer: What is urea?
The part of the nephron responsible for filtration
Answer: What is the Glomerulus?
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