What is excretion ? What strategy is used by animals to do this? - Vidyadip

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What is excretion ? What strategy is used by animals to do this?

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The biological process involved in the removal of harmful nitrogenous metabolic wastes from the body is called excretion.
Various metabolic activities in animal body generate these nitrogenous waste materials which should be excreted out.
Different organisms use varied strategies for excretion.
Many unicellular organisms remove these wastes by simple diffusion from the body surface into surrounding water.
Complex multi-cellular animals use specialised excretory organs to perform the same function.

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