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Fresh water fish:

Correct answer: C. Large amount of hypotonic urine contain little salt

  • A. Body fluid isotonic to external environment
  • B. Passive loss of water from gills
  • C. Large amount of hypotonic urine contain little salt
  • D. Kidney

Explanation

Fresh water animals are constantly facing the osmotic flooding of body fluids and loss of salts. Fresh water protozoa, Amoeba and Paramecium pump out excess water by structures of contractile vacuoles. Many fresh water animals including fishes remove excess water by producing large volumes of very dilute urine. The loss of salts is compensated by preference of salt containing food and by active uptake of salts by gills and skin

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