John Doerr

Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way. So, if all goes well, they're going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels. I guess that's better living through bugs.

American Businessman

Mary Roach

I think by and large, humans prefer to think of themselves as minds from the neck up. We don't really like to think of ourselves as another animal, another digesting, excreting, mating, snoring, sleeping kind of sack of guts. I don't think we like that. I think we'd rather not be reminded of it.

American Author

Jeffrey Kluger

A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was.

American Writer

Hans Fischer

In cases of porphyria, a minor disease, the patient excretes large quantities of porphyrins.

German Scientist

Used when discussing the natural process of waste elimination in living organisms.

Bodily Functions

Often encountered in medical or biological texts discussing the function of organs.

Medical Context

Less common in casual talks, use 'go to the bathroom' or similar phrases instead.

Casual Conversation

Used to explain physiological or biochemical processes in academic texts.

Scientific Processes

Distinguishes between the elimination of waste and the release of substances with a role.

Subtle Differences

Primarily used in formal or technical communication rather than in everyday speech.

Formality

 channeling it through the kidneys and intestine to be excreted. Of course, we wouldn't consider the liver a factory if it didn't also manufacture things. This organ makes everything from various blood plasma proteins that transport fatty acids and help form blood clots, to the cholesterol that helps the body create hormones.

What does the liver do?...

 The good news is you have this amazing three-dimensional view of the world, but the bad news is you have to poop through both of your mouths? So, the worms have these little tubes called pharynxes, and the tubes are sort of in the middle of the body, and they excrete through that. These animals are perfectly viable.

Michael Levin: The...

 having quite a lot of parasites you see them opening their legs and exposing themselves to the Sun so but here I'm sure he's helping him with that but also in order to arrange too much food which is in the stomach at the moment I saw not long time ago he also excreted he just left the

Safari Live - Day 226 PIPE...

 of a German word meaning to gobble and before I learned that I had never thought of excretion as the past tense of eating so and i thought this Oh back one this word was wonderful Monica told us that in order to in order to change the world we have to change our beliefs

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 Some species can even excrete the excess minerals through specially adapted salt glands. All these processes make mangroves more than a little salty, but that doesn’t deter coastal life from living in their nooks and crannies. While birds nest among mangrove branches,

The sharks that hunt in...

 they excrete a lot they excretion acts of acts as food for crustaceans and and small fishes and other other species within the within the ecosystem so they they manage to keep a balance in the ecosystem and people do eat fishes that also manages an important role in

Saving Manatees: What It...

 several times it's iguanas snot and its really salty what they're actually doing is excreting the salt that they take in when they ingest all that seaweed get it from all angles here by basking these iguanas will have raised their body temperature

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 On the deep sea floor, they comprise the majority of animal biomass, reaching up to 95% in some areas. As these sausage-shaped wonders trudge along, they vacuum up sand, digest the organic matter it contains, and excrete the byproduct.

This sea creature...

 So you're stranded in a huge rainforest, and you've eaten a poisonous mushroom. To save your life, you need the antidote excreted by a certain species of frog.

Can you solve the frog...

 and excretes sulfuric acid. So, when you think of odd life forms, when you think of what it takes to live, it turns out this is a very efficient life form,

Excrete