What is meant by osmoregulation ? he the structure of kidney
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- The process of maintaining fluid and electrolyte balance within a cell or organism in relation to the environment by controlling water potential.
- Osmoregulation is vital for animals in biology because it allows them to maintain a consistent, appropriate osmotic pressure within their bodies or cells.
- It's how an organism keeps the right balance of solutes and water in its bodily fluids.
- Organisms use excretion as an example (such as getting rid of metabolic wastes and other substances toxic to the body when they are in large amounts).
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Osmoregulation is the homeostatic control of the water potential of the blood. The kidneys are involved in filtering the blood and deciding which substances to reabsorb and which to excrete as waste. Tiny tubular structures known as tubules carry out this filtration.
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