NEET Previous Year Question

Terrestrial adaptations necessitated the production of :

Topic: NEET PYQ

Answer: A. Full step-by-step solution below.

  1. ALesser toxic nitrogenous wastes like urea and uric acid
  2. BLesser toxic nitrogenous wastes like ammonia and urea
  3. CHighly toxic nitrogenous wastes like ammonia and urea
  4. DHighly toxic nitrogenous wastes like urea and uric acid

Correct answer: A

Solution

(a) As animals adapted to life on land, water conservation became essential. Therefore, they evolved to excrete less toxic nitrogenous wastes such as urea (in mammals and amphibians) and uric acid (in birds and reptiles), which require much less water for excretion than ammonia.

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