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ureotelism

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ureotelism (uncountable)

(biochemistry) The excretion of excess nitrogen as urea

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Firstly, all known diapsids are uricotelic, meaning they excrete uric acid as nitrogenous waste, and there is no known case of a diapsid re-evolving ureotelism, or the excretion of urea, even when they return to semi-aquatic lifestyles. Source: Internet

Therefore, turtles would have to be the only known case of a uricotelic reptile reverting to ureotelism. Source: Internet

Ureotelism appears to be the ancestral condition among primitive amniotes, and it is retained by mammals, which likely inherited ureotelism from their synapsid and therapsid ancestors. Source: Internet

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