Multiple Choice
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 synthesise 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.
Correct Answer:
Verified
Correct Answer:
Verified
Q2: Unlike most bony fishes, sharks maintain body
Q4: Which process in the nephron is least
Q9: <img src="https://d2lvgg3v3hfg70.cloudfront.net/TB6149/.jpg" alt=" - Filtration takes
Q11: A human who has no access to
Q41: Antidiuretic hormone (ADH) and the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system
Q46: Unlike an earthworm's metanephridia, a mammalian nephron
Q47: Which nitrogenous waste has the greatest number
Q48: The transfer of fluid from the glomerulus
Q49: Within a normally functioning kidney, red blood
Q59: After blood flow is artificially reduced at