Excretory Products And Their Elimination Question 1
Question: Waste products of adenine and guanine metabolism are excreted by man as:
Options:
A) Ammonia
B) Urea
C) Uric acid
D) Allantois
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Answer:
Correct Answer: C
Solution:
[c] Main sources of uric acid are purines.
Purines like adenine and guanine change into xanthine which changes into uric acid Guanine $ \downarrow $ Adenine $ \to $ xanthine $ \to $ uric acid