10.Ammonia is changed to uric acid in the liver of A. Ammonotilic animals B. Uricotelic animals C. Ornithotelic animals D. Ureotelic animals
Option B The animals which excrete uric acid as excretory waste are called as uricotelic animals. Ammonia is highly toxic and the animal cannot tolerate even moderate ammonia concentrations in body fluids hence it is converted to less toxic uric acid in the liver of uricotelic animals. Uricotelic animals include lizards, snakes, birds and terrestrial arthropods.
