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Unlike mammals (which create urea) birds turn nitrogenous wastes into uric acid.
This conserves water - as uric acid can be excreted as the thick white substance which is familiar in bird droppings. For mammals, urine consists of urea dissolved in water.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 12y agoUric acid diluted with water as urine. It is better than excreating it as urea because it is less toxic and requires little water.
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In which form reptiles birds and insects excrete nitrogenous waste?
uric acid
How do Pisces fish excrete waste?
crocodile excrete its nitrogenous waste through its cloacal opening
How frogs dispose of nitrogenous waste?
Tadpoles excrete ammonia and frogs excrete urea
What does the embryo excrete nitrogenous waste into?
It excretes it into the ALLANTOIS GLAND.
Which animals excrete their nitrogenous waste entirely as ammonia?
fresh water fish
How are the jobs of the lungs and large intestine similar to the job of your kidneys?
All of the organs mentioned excrete waste. The lungs excrete carbon dioxide, the large intestine excretes solid waste, and the kidneys excrete nitrogenous waste.
Excreting nitrogenous waste as uric acid enables an animal to do what?
Excrete more frequently
What is ureotelic animals?
Animals that excrete in the form of urea nitrogenous waste derived from amino-acid catabolism
Why is it that aphids don't excrete nitrogenous waste?
cos their food has very little nitrogen in it and they need it all
Why do marine fish excrete urine and why in fresh water excrete urea?
Neither marine nor freshwater fish excrete urine or urea; both marine and freshwater fish excrete nitrogenous waste products as pure ammonia.
Nitrogenous waste that requires the least amount of water to excrete?
Ammonia. Got to love Miller Levine bio questions... haha
When animals excrete nitrogenous waste in the soil's certain soil bacteria convert these wastes into nitrate's which are absorb by plants these bacteria function as?
decomposers
