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Excretion is the "process of eliminating from an organism waste products of metabolism and other materials that are of no use. It is an essential process in all forms of life.
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Excretion is the biological process by which an organism separates waste products from its body. The waste products are then usually expelled from the body by elimination.
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excretion of large amounts of a watery urine (as much as 30 liters — about 8 gallons — each day!)
unremitting thirst.
It can have several causes: ...
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excretion The process of removing the waste products of cellular metabolism from the body.
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excretion
The disposal of nitrogen-containing waste products of metabolism.
excretory system ...
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excretion The act, process, or function of excreting. The elimination of metabolic waste products from an animal's body.
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honeydew. An excretion from insects, such as aphids, mealybugs, whiteflies, and soft scales, consisting of modified plant sap.
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ab- from ad- towards ADME- An anacronism used in drug development, meaning absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion.
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The cell must perform many functions including the intake of nutrients, the metabolism of those nutrients, growth, cell division, and the excretion of wastes. What molecules are involved?
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an abnormal condition marked by sugar excretion in urine and high blood glucose levels caused by an insufficiency of insulin
Source: Noland, George B. 1983. General Biology, 11th Edition. St. Louis, MO. C. V. Mosby
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It is thought to affect blood cholesterol levels by removing it from plasma and tissues and carrying it back to the liver for excretion after being acted on by bile.
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Dissolved organic matter. Dissolved molecules derived from degradation of dead organisms or excretion of molecules synthesized by organisms
Disturbance. A rapid change in an environment that greatly alters a previously persistent biological community ...
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by which living tissues or cells take up and convert into their own proper substance the nutritive material brought to them by the blood, or by which they transform their cell protoplasm into simpler substances, which are fitted either for excretion ...
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flame cell
A cell specialized for excretion found in platyhelminths.
Covered in Lab 11 Animal Diversity I
flexor
any muscle that brings about the bending of a limb.
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