The Brackish-Water Shore Crab

question 37

Multiple Choice

The brackish-water shore crab

• A)is a hyperosmotic regulator that maintains a higher salt concentration in their internal fluids than that found in the dilute seawater outside.
• B)is a hypoosmotic regulator that maintains a lower salt concentration than the surrounding seawater.
• C)tends to gain salt from the seawater.
• D)is an osmotic conformer and is euryhaline.
• E)is an osmotic conformer and is stenohaline.

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