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Ch. 44 - Osmoregulation and Excretion

Chapter 44, Problem 6

African lungfish, which are often found in small stagnant pools of fresh water, produce urea as a nitrogenous waste. What is the advantage of this adaptation? a. Urea takes less energy to synthesize than ammonia. b. Small stagnant pools do not provide enough water to dilute ammonia, which is toxic. c. Urea forms an insoluble precipitate. d. Urea makes lungfish tissue hypoosmotic to the pool.

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Hello everyone here We have a question that says nitrogenous waste tends to form from toxic ammonia, which must be converted into a less toxic form before being eliminated from the body. Reptiles and birds convert ammonia to blank, while mammals converted to blank reptiles and birds are uric metallic animals, and they convert toxic ammonia to uric acid. So our first blank is uric acid. However, mammals are eurotel IQ animals and produce Yuria from ammonia. So our second blank is your area. So our answer here is C. Uric acid and urea. Thank you for watching. Bye.