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Excretory Process
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Most excretory systems produce urine by refining a filtrate derived from body fluids
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Filtration
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Filtering of body fluids
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Reabsorption
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Reclaiming valuable solutes
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Secretion
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Adding nonessential solutes and wastes from the body fluids to the filtrate
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Excretion
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Processed filtrate containing nitrogenous wastes, released from the body
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Protonephridium
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A protonephridium is a network of dead-end tubules connected to external openings
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Metanephridia
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Each segment of an earthworm has a pair of open-ended metanephridia
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Malphigian Tubules
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In insects and other terrestrial arthropods, Malpighian tubules remove nitrogenous wastes from hemolymph and function in osmoregulation
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