how does liver serve both as a digestive as well as an excretory organ?
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Reason on liver serve both as a digestive as well as an excretory organ:
- Liver hides bile that assisting in emulsification of so called as digestive organ.
- It also helps in deamination of amino acids to form urea that is excreted via kidneys. So, acts as an excretory organ.
Liver serves both as a digestive as well as an excretory organ in the following way:
- The bile juice secreted by the liver make the chyme (the semi solid and partly digested food) alkaline for the action of enzymes secreted by pancreas and small intestine.
- Bile emulsify the fats for their digestion and easy absorption.
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The liver serves as both digestive and excretory organ.
Explanation:
- Liver secretes bile juice which aids in the digestion of food. It helps in emulsification of fat present in the food.
- The liver aids in the process of excretion as the liver metabolizes the toxic substances in the body into less toxic substances which are eliminated along with urine from the body.
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