Osmoregulators:
A) change the ECF osmotic pressure when osmotic pressure in the surrounding water changes.
B) have to regulate ICF organic osmolytes to counteract cell volume changes.
C) maintain a relatively steady ECF osmotic pressure even when the osmotic pressure changes in the external environment.
D) are hyperosmotic in marine environments.
E) are hypo-osmotic in freshwater environments..
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Q11: Why do marine osmoconformers use organic osmolytes
Q12: Stenohaline osmoconformers such as sea anemones and
Q13: Animals living in intertidal zones are
A) strict
Q14: Marine sharks and rays
A) are ureosmotic conformers.
B)
Q15: In sharks and rays TMAO
A) is present
Q17: Muscle is about _ water.
A) 25%
B) 45%
C)
Q18: Fresh water vertebrates
A) are hyper-osmotic regulators.
B) produce
Q19: In osmoregulators such as mammals
A) the osmotic
Q20: Camels are perfectly adapted to desert conditions
Q21: Vasopressin and thirst are inhibited when
A) ECF
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