Excretion in Plants and Animals

Test your knowledge about excretory systems in plants and animals, including metabolic wastes, kidney structure and function, urinary system anatomy, and plant excretory products.

10 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What do you understand by metabolic wastes?

  1. The wastes including metals
  2. The wastes produced by factories
  3. The wastes produced by the chemical processes in living beings
  4. The wastes which cannot be degraded
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is/are not included in the wastes produced by human beings?

  1. Urea
  2. Ammonia
  3. Salts
  4. Oxygen
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following statements is/are false about human kidneys?

  1. Kidneys are located in front of the stomach.
  2. The left kidney is slightly above the right one.
  3. Nephron is the basic structural unit of kidney.
  4. All of the above
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What replaces urea in reptilian urine?

  1. Ammonia
  2. Iron
  3. Uric acid
  4. Acetic acid
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Urine passes out of the body through

  1. ureter
  2. rectum
  3. anus
  4. urethra
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not an excretory product of plants?

  1. Carbon dioxide
  2. Resin
  3. Oil
  4. Gum
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following statements is not true about the human urinary system?

  1. It has a pair of urethras.
  2. The kidneys filter the blood to remove wastes and produce urine.
  3. The urinary bladder stores the urine.
  4. It has a pair of ureters.
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Bladder is an organ

  1. that has a network of capillaries
  2. that forms a common tube called ureter
  3. that stores urine temporarily before elimination
  4. in which filtration is accomplished
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the cup-shaped structure of nephron called?

  1. Bowman’s capsule
  2. Glomerulus
  3. Tubule
  4. Renal artery
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Urea is produced by the metabolism of

  1. carbohydrates
  2. proteins
  3. fats
  4. minerals