Excretory Products And Their Elimination Ques 40
40. A person is undergoing prolonged fasting. His urine will be found to contain abnormal quantities of:
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(a) fats
(b) amino acids
(c) glucose
(d) ketones
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Answer : d
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(d) Under fasting conditions and in uncontrolled diabetes, the liver produces large amount of ketone bodies like Acetoacetate, dihydroxy butyrate. The presence of excess ketone bodies in blood or urine is termed ketonemic and ketonuria respectively.
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