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Osmoregulation |
Process by which animals control solute concentrations and balance water gain and loss. |
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Excretion |
Process that rids the body of nitrogenous metabolites and other metabolic wast products. |
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Hyperosmotic |
The solution with the greater concentration of solutes. |
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Hypoosmotic |
The solution with the smaller amount of solute. |
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Isosmotic |
Having the same osmotic pressure. Equillibrium |
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Osmoconformer |
are marine organisms that maintain an internal environment thatis isosmotic to their external environment. This means that the osmoticpressure, or osmolarity, of the organism's cells is equal to the osmoticpressure of their surrounding environment. |
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Osmoregulator |
Regulating the osmotic balance. |
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Ammonia (pee) |
Fish |
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Urea (pee) |
Humans |
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Uric acid (pee) |
reptiles and birds |
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Filtration |
Water, salts, sugars, amino acids, and nitrogenous bases are pushed out of capillaries and form a solution called the filtrate. |
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Absorbtion |
This process recovers useful molecules and puts it back into the body fluids. |
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Secretion |
Anything else the body doesn't need is pushed out of the body fluids and into the filtrate. |
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Excretion |
Peeing out the filtrate |
