Biology GCSE
Liver function
What Liver function means in Biology GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Processing amino acids rather than excreting them unchanged, making the liver central to homeostasis.
The liver converts ammonia formed by deamination into urea, a less toxic nitrogenous compound.
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Related terms
- Ammonia
- Composition of blood plasma and urine
- Consequences of imbalance
- Data interpretation from tables and bar charts
- Deamination
- Effector
- excretion
- Excretion and homeostasis
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