It’s a sunny Sunday afternoon, and you decide to give your car a long overdue wash and wax before a new week in the lab begins. An hour or so later, you’re finally finished. You step back to admire the near-mirror polish on your car, when you hear a muffled splat, followed by a bird call high overhead that sounds suspiciously like laughter. What is the primary nitrogenous component of the gross white paste splashed across the roof of your otherwise immaculate car?

Question

a. ammonia
b. urea
c. uric acid
d. nitrogen dioxide

Answer 1

c. uric acid