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Author: Peter Stiling, Robert Brooker, Linda Graham, Eric Widmaier
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 49.1, Problem 1CC
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To explain: Whether animals completely avoid all the losses resulting from obligatory exchanges or not.
Introduction: Obligatory exchanges are the exchanges of water and solute ions between the animal body and environment. During the vital processes, these obligatory exchanges take place.
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