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Digitalis

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Hey everyone

I've got a Bio assignment due in a few weeks for my HSC, and i cant find information on nitrogenous wastes and the Eastern Grey Kangaroo, so i was wonderring if anyone on here could help me out ??

And before you say, google it
i already have lol

So i need to "name nitrogenous wastes produced (so like Urea or Urine etc)", "describe how nitrogenous wastes are excreted", "How they're produced - describe concentration" and relate water conservation to the nitrogenous waste excretion, which i should be able to do if i have the previous information


Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks
 

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Your bio textbooks has all the answers to those questions in it, as they come from the dotpoints.

Also, google "waste excretion in animals" and you come up with heaps.
 

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The desert living REd Kangaroo have the ability to produce small amounts of highly concentrated urine.

They achieve this by:

* Having longer tubules in their kidney nephrons which allows for more reabsorption of water back into the blood.

* the cells lining the tubules are able to actively transport urea from blood into urine. So not only is urea reabsorbed from the " filtrate: liquid, but is actively " pumped" from the blood.

This results in less water and more urea in the urine.


Source Keep it simple science HSC biology. ; maintaining a balance.
 

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