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Removing the toxic waste products of chemical reactions from the body of an organism is best described by which term?
Excretion is the removal of the waste products of metabolism, the toxic substances made by the chemical reactions inside an organism's cells, such as carbon dioxide from respiration or urea. Getting rid of these self-made waste products is exactly what is described. It is not nutrition, which is the taking in of materials, and it is not reproduction or sensitivity, which do not involve removing waste. Keep excretion separate from egestion, which is the removal of undigested food that never took part in the cells' chemistry.
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