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A person who is on a long hunger strike and is surviving only on water, will have:
BiologyExcretory Products and their EliminationNEETNEET 2007
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  • A less amino acids in his urine
  • B more glucose in his blood
  • C less urea in his urine
  • D more sodium in his urine.
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The correct answer is: less urea in his urine
Due to a long hunger strike and survivalon water, a person will have less urea in hisurine because urea comes to kidney as a waste product from liver which is formed after the breakdown of protein fat, carbohydrate during hunger. It is not synthesized but the synthesized ones are catabolised.
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$\rightarrow$ The normal concentration of sodium in the blood plasma is $150 \mathrm{mEq} / \mathrm{L}$. Excess water
intake will cause excess urination. Because nutritional Nais absent on account of hunger, the amount of $\mathrm{Na}$ in the blood will decrease.

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