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Urine is formed from alkaline blood, but it is acidic in nature”. Comment.
Solution
Blood is alkaline in nature but urine formed from blood is acidic. It is due to the reason that acidic products are continuously added to blood, but at the same time kidneys perform important service by selectively filtering out substances from blood into urine, thus it is acidic in nature.
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