Camels are perfectly adapted to desert conditions because
A) they can tolerate up to 30% loss of body water without any severe consequences.
B) they can slow down their metabolism when dehydration causes hypertonicity of ECF.
C) they have the ability to maintain plasma volume at the same homeostatic range even when the interstitial fluid becomes hypertonic.
D) their body cells do not go into osmotic shock when they drink water rapidly after prolonged dehydration.
E) all of these.
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Q15: In sharks and rays TMAO
A) is present
Q16: Osmoregulators:
A) change the ECF osmotic pressure when
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
Q21: Vasopressin and thirst are inhibited when
A) ECF
Q22: Increase in ECF osmolarity
A) stimulates the osmoreceptors
Q23: Mammalian herbivores
A) have more K+ ions than
Q24: The most important factor regulating the mammalian
Q25: pH of arterial blood is slightly higher
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