Excretory Products and their Elimination: Waste Matter Discharged from the Body

In this quiz, you will find questions related to the wastes excreted by the body which includes ammonia, urea, uric acid, and other related compounds.

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Which of the following is not accumulated by the body of living organisms?

Ammonia Carbon dioxide Urea Oxygen

Which of the following is not the major form of nitrogenous wastes?

Ammonia Urea Carbon dioxide Uric acid

Which of the following is the most toxic form of nitrogenous waste?

Guanine Ammonia Urea Uric acid

Ammonia is generally excreted through which of the following?

Kidneys Gills Lungs Skin

Which of the following organisms is not ureotelic?

Bony fishes Mammals Terrestrial amphibians Marine fishes

What happens when glomerular filteration rate falls?

Activation of podocytes Release of renin Repression of juxta glomerular cells None of the above

Which of the following can be cured by hemodialysis?

Renal calculi Glomerulonephritis Uremia All of these can be cured by hemodialysis

Ornithine cycle leads to the formation of?

NH3

((NH2)2)CO)

C5H4N4O3

C5H4N4

The yellow pigment derived from heme breakdown and excreted by kidneys is?

Uric acid

Urochrome

Cholesterol

Melanin

Kidneys are located in?

Thoracic cavity

Abdominal cavity

Body cavity

Pelvic cavity

Proximal and distal convoluted tubules are parts of:

Nephron

Oviduct

Vas deferens

Seminiferous tubules

Antidiuretic hormone?

All of them

Is secreted by nerve cells with their cell bodies in hypothalamus

Increases permeability of renal collecting duct cells to water

Secretion is determined by plasma osmolarity

Which one of the following is a correctly matched pair of the given secretion and its primary role in human physiology?

Sweat — Thermoregulation

Saliva — Tasting food

Tears — Excretion of salts

Sebum — Sexual attraction

A person who is one along hunger strike and is surviving only on water, will have:

Less urea in his urine

More sodium in his urine

More glucose in his blood

Less amino acids in his urine

If Henle’s loop were absent from mammalian nephron which of the following is to be expected?

The urine will be more dilute

The urine will be more concentrated

There will be no urine formation

None of these

Quiz/Test Summary
Title: Excretory Products and their Elimination: Waste Matter Discharged from the Body
Questions: 15
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