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How do birds insects and reptiles conserve water by excreteing uric acid?
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Birds, insects and reptiles conserve water by excreting uric acid. This is because the solubility of uric acid in water is poor thus can conserve water easily.
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What compound do birds insects and reptiles living in dry habitats excrete How does this help them conserve water?
Birds, insects, and reptiles living in dry habitats typically excrete uric acid. Uric acid can be excreted while the water in the urine is reabsorbed.
How does uric acid help birds insects and reptiles conserve water?
its not about advantages, they are designed that way. Uric acid is released by birds and reptiles due to the fact that their excretory system is different compared to humans and aquatic animals
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None. They are birds.
What adaptations enable birds to live in environments that are colder than those typically supporting reptiles?
Unlike reptiles, birds are endothermic. They also have feathers, which conserve heat.
What animal lays eggs besides a fish?
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What is animal that hatch from egg?
Birds, insects, reptiles, amphibians, many fish.
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tropical rainforest
In which form reptiles birds and insects excrete nitrogenous waste?
uric acid
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Birds, Insects and Reptiles such as Lizards and Snakes.
Are chimpanzees fish birds mammals amphibians reptiles or insects?
Chimpanzees are mammals.
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Banana spiders are arachnids.
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birds eat them and fish and reptiles and some mammals
