Question

Explain the term guanotelic?

Answer 1

Excretory products:

1. Animals are known to excrete ammonia, urea, uric acid, and guanine as excretory products.

Guanotelic:

1. Animals that discharge the nucleotide base guanine as the excretory products are known as guanotelic.
2. Guanine is a nitrogenous base, purine.

Examples:

1. A few examples of guanotelic animals are scorpions and spiders.
2. Spiders possess the coxal gland as an excretory gland.
3. Scorpions have Malpighian tubule as the excretory organs which excretes guanine.