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Some desert beetles can survive on " metabolic water", without drinking water which is

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Produced as water in the organisms they eat
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Absorbed from air along with respiratory oxygen
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Breakdown product of pyruvate inside the mitochondria, along with carbon dioxide
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Breakdown product from glycolysis in the cytoplasm
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Solution

The correct option is C Breakdown product of pyruvate inside the mitochondria, along with carbon dioxide
  • Metabolic water is created by oxidizing the energy-containing substances in their food during metabolic activity.
  • Some organisms, especially xerocoles, animals living in the desert, rely exclusively on metabolic water.
  • They absorb this metabolic water from the air along with the respiratory oxygen.
Thus, the correct answer is option C.

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