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    Excretion is the process by which organisms eliminate metabolic waste. In vertebrates this occurs primarily through the lungs, kidneys, and skin. Plants excrete waste through their leaves, roots, and soil surrounding them. The main excretory products in animals are carbon dioxide, ammonia, urea, uric acid, guanine, and creatine, which are cleared from the blood by the liver and kidneys and expelled in urine and feces. Birds excrete nitrogenous waste as uric acid paste for efficient water retention and easier egg storage.

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    Excretion is the process by which organisms eliminate metabolic waste. In vertebrates this occurs primarily through the lungs, kidneys, and skin. Plants excrete waste through their leaves, roots, and soil surrounding them. The main excretory products in animals are carbon dioxide, ammonia, urea, uric acid, guanine, and creatine, which are cleared from the blood by the liver and kidneys and expelled in urine and feces. Birds excrete nitrogenous waste as uric acid paste for efficient water retention and easier egg storage.

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    Excretion is the process by which organisms eliminate metabolic waste. In vertebrates this occurs primarily through the lungs, kidneys, and skin. Plants excrete waste through their leaves, roots, and soil surrounding them. The main excretory products in animals are carbon dioxide, ammonia, urea, uric acid, guanine, and creatine, which are cleared from the blood by the liver and kidneys and expelled in urine and feces. Birds excrete nitrogenous waste as uric acid paste for efficient water retention and easier egg storage.

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    Excretion is the process by which metabolic waste is eliminated from an organism. In vertebrates this is
    primarily carried out by the lungs, kidneys and skin.[1] This is in contrast with secretion, where the
    substance may have specific tasks after leaving the cell. Excretion is an essential process in all forms of
    life. For example, in mammals urine is expelled through the urethra, which is part of the excretory
    system. In unicellular organisms, waste products are discharged directly through the surface of the cell.

    Green plants produce carbon dioxide and water as respiratory products. In green plants, the carbon
    dioxide released during respiration gets utilized during photosynthesis. Oxygen is a by product
    generated during photosynthesis, and exits through stomata, root cell walls, and other routes. Plants
    can get rid of excess water by transpiration and guttation. It has been shown that the leaf acts as an
    'excretophore' and, in addition to being a primary organ of photosynthesis, is also used as a method of
    excreting toxic wastes via diffusion. Other waste materials that are exuded by some plants — resin,
    saps, latex, etc. are forced from the interior of the plant by hydrostatic pressures inside the plant and by
    absorptive forces of plant cells. These latter processes do not need added energy, they act passively.
    However, during the pre-abscission phase, the metabolic levels of a leaf are high.[2][3] Plants also excrete
    some waste substances into the soil around them.[4]Chemical structure of uric acid.

    In animals, the main excretory products are carbon


    dioxide, ammonia (in ammoniotelics), urea (in ureotelics), uric
    acid (in uricotelics), guanine (in Arachnida) and creatine. The liver and kidneys clear many substances
    from the blood (for example, in renal excretion), and the cleared substances are then excreted from the
    body in the urine and feces.

    Aquatic animals usually excrete ammonia directly into the external environment, as this compound has
    high solubility and there is ample water available for dilution. In terrestrial animals ammonia-like
    compounds are converted into other nitrogenous materials as there is less water in the environment
    and ammonia itself is toxic.

    White cast of uric acid defecated with the dark feces from a lizard. Insects, birds and some other reptiles
    also undergo a similar mechanism.

    Birds excrete their nitrogenous wastes as uric acid in the form of a paste. Although this process is
    metabolically more expensive, it allows more efficient water retention and it can be stored more easily
    in the egg. Many avian species, especially seabirds, can also excrete salt via specialized nasal salt glands,
    the saline solution leaving through nostrils in the beak.

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