Sunday, April 1, 2007

Excretion

  • undigested food becomes solid waste
  • it leaves the anus of the animal
  • Terrestrial arthropods remove nitrogen-containing wastes by...
    --->using a set of Malpighian tubules
    --->found in the body sinuses
    --->remove waste from blood, concentrate them, and then add undigested food allowing it to leave through anus
    --->may have small excretory glands at bases of legs
  • Aquatic arthropods remove nitrogen-containing wastes by...
    --->through a pair of green glands found by base of antennae
    --->eliminated through a pair of opening on the head

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