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3. Organisms with the highest urine concentrations. Answer: Mammalian desert organisms

4. Organ responsible for storing urine. Answer: Urinary bladder

5. Marine invertebrates that do not regulate salt and water balance. Answer: Osmoconformers

6. A small, highly toxic molecule that results from the breakdown of amino acids and nucleic acids Answer: Ammonia

7. In mammals, the main organ of excretion Answer: What is the Kidney?

8. The starting reactants of nitrogenous wastes Answer: What are amino acids and nucleic Acids?

9. Where urea forms Answer: What is the Liver?

10. Bony fish that lose water osmotically because they live in marine environments. (drink salt water & excrete excess salt) Answer: Osmoregulatory

11. In order of decreasing required energy to produce. Answer: Ammonia, Urea, Uric Acid

12. Conducts urine from bladder to outside Answer: What is the urethra?

13. A pigment produced in the liver from the breakdown of hemoglobin. Answer: What is bilirubin?

14. Glands that are associated with the kidneys Answer: What are adrenal glands?

15. Fish that have a greater salt concentration inside their bodies Answer: Freshwater fish

16. When excreted it has a very low solubility and virtually no toxicity. Answer: What is Uric Acid?

17. Desert frogs do this to restrict water loss. Answer: Burrow

18. Where urine is produced. Answer: What is the Nephron?

19. These organisms do not drink water & instead have a problem retaining ions. Answer: Freshwater fish

20. The 3 main ways water in humans is lost. List them. Answer: Urine Production, Defecation, Sweating

21. Adaptation in camels for desert life to store fat. Answer: What is a camel’s Hump?

22. Excreted as a white paste by birds. Answer: What is Uric Acid?

23. Circumstance when fish have to make physiological changes to compensate for changes in the environment. Answer: Migrating fish

24. If people suffer from renal failure this could happen. Answer: Fluid Retention (Edema)

25. The process by which water content and solute concentration of bodily fluids is kept at homeostasis. Answer: What is osmoregulation?

26. Excreted by mammals, some fish, and most amphibians. Answer: What is urea?

27. The part of the nephron responsible for filtration Answer: What is the Glomerulus?

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