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In which organ is urea produced?


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Urea production:

  1. The liver is where urea is created.
  2. The urea cycle is a cyclic mechanism that produces urea from ammonia, carbon dioxide, and aspartate.
  3. The ornithine cycle, often known as the urea cycle, is a metabolic process that transforms highly poisonous ammonia to urea for excretion.
  4. This cycle takes place mostly in an organism's liver. The synthesis of urea is accomplished through a series of five enzyme processes.
  5. It mainly occurs in ureotelic organism.


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