What is osmoregulation?

Question

lucy

Answer 1

osmo regulation is a process of maintaing the right amount of water and ionic balance in the body
it is generally done by the kidneys
sweating is also one way

Answer 2

The process of maintaining the right amount of water and proper ionic balance in the body is termed as Osmoregulation.

Answer 3

Osmoregulation (Osmosis + Regulation) is the control of the levels of water and mineral salts in the blood.

You can get a detailed explanation of the same at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmoregulation

Answer 4

Removal of excess of water from the body to keep water content constant is called osmoregulation

Answer 5

Osmoregulation is the regulation of water and ion concentrations in the body. Keeping this regulation precise is critical in maintaining life in a cell. Balance of water and ions is partly linked to excretion, the removal of metabolic wastes from the body.

The following information should answer some of your questions relating to this topic area. We have discussed the major components in water/ion regulation, as well as specific examples of animals and their struggle to achieve osmotic balance.

There are three main types of osmoregulatory environments in which animals live: freshwater, marine, and terrestrial. Aquatic animals are either euryhaline or stenohaline, depending on their ability to tolerate different salinities. Animals whose internal osmotic concentration is the same as the surrounding environment are considered osmoconformers, whereas those that maintain an osmotic difference between their body fluid and the surrounding environment are osmoregulators. Freshwater animals (all osmoregulators) include invertebrates, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, and mammals. The freshwater animals are generally hyperosmotic to their environment. The problems that they face because of this are that they are subject to swelling by movement of water into their bodies owing to the osmotic gradient, and they are subject to the continual loss of body salts to the surrounding environment (which has a low salt content). They way these animals deal with these problems is to produce a large volume of dilute urine. The kidney absorbs the salts that are needed, and the rest of the water is excreted. Another way these animals deal with lack of salt is by obtaining it from the food they ingest. A key salt replacement mechanism for freshwater animals is active transport of salt from the external dilute medium across the epithelium into the interstitial fluid and blood. Amphibian’s skin and fish gills are active in this process. Freshwater animals tend to take in water passively and to remove it actively through osmotic work of kidneys (in vertebrates) or kidney-like organs (in invertebrates)..

Answer 6

Osmotic pressure is a measure of the tendency of water to move into one solution from another by osmosis.

Osmoregulation keeps the dilution of water vs outside levels in an organism at a constant state.

Much like thermoregulation only this deals with water instead of heat.

Answer 7

Hi.
Osmoregulation is the process of maintaining salt & water balance in the body.If the concentration of the body fluids is higher than that of the cell contents, water will be drawn out and cells will shrink.On the other hand if the body fluid conc.is lower than that of the cell contents, the cell will absorb water and may burst.Hence the concentration of the body fluid should neither be too dilute nor too concentrated.

Answer 8

the process of maintaining the water and salt contents constant in the body is called osmoregulation.The hormone which helps in osmoregulation is ANTI-DIURETIC HORMONE(also known as VASOPRESSIN)

Answer 9

our body has lots of electrolytes that should be keep in normal conditions maintaining of this is called osmoregulation
if u drink lots of salt water u can feel it how body maintain the balance ( don't drink lots of salt water can cause serious problems)

Answer 10

regulation of osmolarity that is osmotic pressure of body fluid :blood...
and solute concntration in body fluid determine osmolarity