Excretion
Excretion: Overview
This topic covers concepts, such as, Excretion, Human Excretory System, Hemodialysis & Excretion in Plants etc.
Important Questions on Excretion
Can we say that breathing out carbon dioxide is an excretion process?

Given below is a diagram of a nephron.
Which row of the following table correctly shows where filtration and selective reabsorption occur?

Given below are the set of 10 biological terms. Out of these 8 can be paired into four matching pairs. Identify the matching pairs.
Bowmen's capsule, ADH, contains more CO2 and less urea, regulates amount of excreted water, renal vein, loop of Henle, renal artery< distal tubule, contains more urea, glomerular filtrate

Describe the mechanism of urine formation and elimination.

The organs A of a person have been damaged completely due to which too much of a poisonous waste material B has started accumulating in his blood, making it dirty. In order to save this person’s life, the blood from an artery in the person’s arm is made to flow into long tubes made of substance E which are kept in coiled form in a tank containing solution F. This solution contains three materials G, H and I in similar proportions to those in normal blood. As the person’s blood passes through long tubes of substance E, most of the wastes present in it go into solution. The clean blood is then put back into a vein in the arm of the person for the process of circulation.
Identify 'E'.

The organs A of a person have been damaged completely due to which too much of a poisonous waste material B has started accumulating in his blood, making it dirty. In order to save this person’s life, the blood from an artery in the person’s arm is made to flow into long tubes made of substance E which are kept in coiled form in a tank containing solution F. This solution contains three materials G, H and I in similar proportions to those in normal blood. As the person’s blood passes through long tubes of substance E, most of the wastes present in it go into solution. The clean blood is then put back into a vein in the arm of the person for the process of circulation.
Name the process described above.

The organs A of a person have been damaged completely due to which too much of a poisonous waste material B has started accumulating in his blood, making it dirty. In order to save this person’s life, the blood from an artery in the person’s arm is made to flow into long tubes made of substance E which are kept in a coiled form in a tank containing solution F. This solution contains three materials G, H and I in similar proportions to those in normal blood. As the person’s blood passes through long tubes of substance E, most of the wastes present in it go into the solution. The clean blood is then put back into a vein in the arm of the person for the process of circulation.
Identify the organs A.

Birds and lizards are two groups of animals in which the nitrogenous wastes are excreted from body in the form of uric acid.

How nitrogenous wastes are excreted through the body of insects and lizards?

Human being stores nitrogenous wastes as uric acid before excretion.


Select the correct combination on the basis of uric acid as the excretory material of organisms.

What are the waste products which would cause harm to the body if they are not removed?

Which among the following are examples of secondary metabolites?

The elimination of metabolic waste products from the animal body to regulate the composition of body fluids and tissue is called _____in animals.

Discuss the process of urine formation in human. Describe the structure of the kidney?

Mention the organs besides the kidney which are involved in the process of excretion?


Which is the main excretory organ in human beings?

