Excretory Products and their EliminationHard

Question

In living beings, ammonia is convert into urea through

Options

A.ornithine cycle
B.citrulline cycle
C.fumarine cycle
D.arginine cycle

Solution

Ornithine combines with one molecule of NH3 and CO2 to produce. citrulline. Citrulline combines with another molecule of NH3 to form arginine. Arginine is broken down into urea and Ornithine which repeats the cycle. This is called ornithine cycle or urea cycle or Krebs-Henseleit cycle.

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