nitrogenous waste Quick reference
A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation (3 ed.)
... waste Any animal or vegetable residues that contain significant amounts of nitrogen...
nitrogenous waste Quick reference
A Dictionary of Biology (8 ed.)
...nitrogenous waste Any metabolic waste product that contains nitrogen. Urea and uric acid are the most common nitrogenous waste products in terrestrial animals; freshwater fish excrete ammonia and marine fish excrete both urea and trimethylamine ...
nitrogenous waste
waste product
renal failure
argininosuccinic aciduria
Gecarcinidae
maxillary gland
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ammonotelic Quick reference
A Dictionary of Biology (8 ed.)
...ammonotelic Describing animals that excrete nitrogenous waste in the form of ammonia . Most aquatic animals are ammonotelic. Compare ureotelic ; uricotelic...
ammonotelic Quick reference
A Dictionary of Ecology (5 ed.)
...Applied to organisms (e.g. many aquatic invertebrates and teleost fish) that excrete nitrogenous waste derived from amino-acid catabolism in the form of...
uricotelic Quick reference
A Dictionary of Biology (8 ed.)
...uricotelic Describing animals that excrete nitrogenous waste in the form of uric acid or the closely related guanine. Uricotelic animals include birds, reptiles, and most terrestrial arthropods. Compare ammonotelic ; ureotelic...
ammonotelic Quick reference
A Dictionary of Zoology (5 ed.)
... Applied to organisms (e.g. many aquatic invertebrates and teleost fish) that excrete nitrogenous waste derived from amino-acid catabolism in the form of ammonia. See also ureotelic ; uricotelic...
ureotelic Quick reference
A Dictionary of Zoology (5 ed.)
... Applied to organisms that excrete in the form of urea nitrogenous waste derived from amino-acid catabolism (e.g. Elasmobranchii , adult Amphibia , and Mammalia ). See also ammonotelic ; uricotelic...
