Live Quiz Arena
🎁 1 Free Round Daily
⚡ Enter ArenaQuestion
← Nature & AnimalsWhich process enables freshwater fish to maintain proper salt concentration when constantly losing salts to the environment?
A)Excreting highly dilute urine
B)Actively absorbing salts across gills✓
C)Minimizing water intake by drinking
D)Increasing passive salt uptake within cells
💡 Explanation
When freshwater fish face constant salt loss, active transport of ions by chloride cells drives osmoregulation because it uses energy to move salts against concentration gradients. Therefore, absorption of the available ions across gills is how salt concentration maintained rather than dilute urine, minimizing water intake, or cell absorption.
🏆 Up to £1,000 monthly prize pool
Ready for the live challenge? Join the next global round now.
*Terms apply. Skill-based competition.
Related Questions
Browse Nature & Animals →- While tracking long-distance swimming salmon, which outcome indicates hypoxic conditions because of environmental change?
- Which risk increases for a drought-stressed plant when root endodermis Casparian strips become damaged?
- Which outcome occurs when background noise interferes with odontocete's signals?
- Which photosynthetic outcome dictates leaf anatomy under high light exposure regimes?
- Which consequence results when elevated CO₂ causes decreased stomatal conductance in C4 grasses?
- Which process facilitates thermal regulation during soaring flight, causing efficient cooling?
