nitrogenous wastes
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Nitrogenous waste can be valuable as fertilizer.
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Figure 32.12 Malpighian tubules of insects and other terrestrial arthropods remove nitrogenous wastes and other solutes from the hemolymph.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
The allantois stores nitrogenous wastes produced by the embryo and also facilitates respiration.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
This organic nitrogen enters terrestrial food webs, and it leaves the food webs as nitrogenous wastes in the soil.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
There is no excretory system or organs, and nitrogenous wastes simply diffuse from the cells into the water outside the animal or in the gastrovascular cavity.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
Like the sponges, Cnidarian cells exchange oxygen, carbon dioxide, and nitrogenous wastes by diffusion between cells in the epidermis and gastrodermis with water.
From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013
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