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The Role of Grady in Osmoregulation
For fish that live in salty water, the inside of their body is less salty than the surrounding water. If you have a fish that's adapted to fresh water, then they're bringing salt into their body because they they're more salty than the water around them. So this is all part of like, osmo regulation, which I have to admit, I don't understand in like extreme detail,. But basically for fish that live In salty water, they have to keep their insides less salty thanThe water around them so that they can maintain that gradient. For fish that liveIn Fresh Water, They have to maintain more salt in their body than the surrounding waters and always have one side
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