Please answer the following questions using complete sentences.
Please write
these complete sentences on your own paper. The answers to these
questions will
be found in the older Hallman AMSCO textbook.
1. List the 3 major areas where water is found in
our bodies and the approximate
percentage of water in each area.
(p. 264)
2. What is meant by the term excretion? (p.
266)
3. Our kidneys need to filter nitrogenous wastes
from our blood. Where do these
nitrogenous wastes come from?
(p. 266)
4. What is the main toxic waste produced from the
breakdown of amino acids? (p. 266)
5. Some organisms convert poisonous ammonia into
less harmful uric acid crystals
which they remove by defecation
from their digestive systems. List three examples
of organisms which produce this
waste. (p. 266)
6. How do most mammals (like humans) deal with ammonia
and what is the major way
they remove it from their bodies?
(p. 267)
7. What does the contractile vacuole do in some fresh
water organisms? (p. 267)