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Excretion / Evolution I OBSR Part 1
Excretion / Evolution I OBSR Class 11 Part 1 (Excretion)
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Biology
Undergraduate 2
05/01/2011

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Term
The __________ __________ collects fluids generally from blood or interstitial fluids and adjusts the composition of fluids by returning needed substances to body fluid - excess and potent substances (metabolic wastes) are excreted.
Definition
1) Excretory system
Term
__________ is the process by which organisms control the concentration of water and salt in the body so that their body fluids do not become too dilute or too concentrated.
Definition
1) Osmoregulation
Term
What are the three principal waste products of animal metabolism?
Definition
1) Water
2) Carbon dioxide
3) Nitrogenous wastes
Term
What are the three types of nitrogenous wastes excreted from the body?
Definition
1) Ammonia
2) Urea
3) Uric acid
Term
Out of the three nitrogenous wastes, which is the most toxic and is secreted by aquatic animals?
Definition
1) Ammonia
Term
Where is urea synthesized in your body?
Definition
1) The liver
Term
What are two advantages of excreting wastes in the form of urea?
Definition
1) Less toxic
2) Can accumulate in greater concentration without causing tissue damage
Term
If you are a reptile living in an extremely hot environment, in what form would you prefer to excrete your nitrogenous wastes?
Definition
1) Uric acid
Term
__________ are organisms whose salt concentration of their body fluids varies with changes in the seawater.
Definition
1) Osmoconformers
Term
__________ include most invertebrates (Cnidarians).
Definition
1) Osmoconformers
Term
__________ are organisms which maintain optimal salt concentrations despite changes in salinity of surroundings.
Definition
1) Osmoregulators
Term
__________ prevent and salt from osmotically moving out of the body; can remove excess water.
Definition
1) Osmoregulators
Term
__________ __________ for osmoregulation and excretion are found in invertebrates like flatworms, rotifers, annelids, mollusks, and lancelets.
Definition
1) Nephridial organs
Term
__________ __________ for osmoregulation and excretion are simple or branching tubes that open to the outside through pores.
Definition
1) Nephridial organs
Term
__________ __________ for osmoregulation and excretion help maintain homeostasis by regulating the concentration of body fluids; osmoregulation; the excretion of metabolic wastes.
Definition
1) Nephridial organs
Term
The __________ of a planarian, which function mainly in osmoregulation, form a system of branching tubules.
Definition
1) Poronephridia
Term
__________ cells are often involved with the protonephridia nephridial orggans in which the interstitial fluid passes through the cell and then a series of tubules.
Definition
1) Flame
Term
Each __________ of an earthworm consists of a ciliated funnel opening into the coelom, a coiled tube, and a nephridiophore opening to the outside.
Definition
1) Metanephridium
Term
The slender __________ __________ have blind ends that extend into the hemocoel. Their cells transfer __________ __________ and some ions from the hemolymph to the cavity of the tubule; water follows by diffusion.
Definition
1) Malphighian tubules
2) Uric acid
Term
What type of fish takes in water osmotically?
Definition
1) Freshwater fishes
Term
What type of fish excretes a large volume of dilute urine?
Definition
1) Freshwater fishes
Term
What type of fish loses water osmotically?
Definition
1) Marine bony fishes
Term
What type of fish compensate for their water loss by drinking seawater and excreting salt through their gills?
Definition
1) Marine bony fishes
Term
What type of fish produces a small volume of urine?
Definition
1) Marine bony fishes
Term
What type of fish retains a large amount of urea?
Definition
1) Sharks and other marine cartilaginous fishes
Term
What type of fish takes in water osmotically through the gills?
Definition
1) Sharks and other marine cartilaginous fishes
Term
What type of fish excretes a large volume of urine?
Definition
1) Sharks and other marine cartilaginous fishes
Term
Terrestrial Vertebrates:
-Must conserve _________
-Adaptations include efficient _________
-_________ (constant body temperature)
-Have a high _________ rate
-Produce large volume of _________ wastes (urea or uric acid)
-Very efficient _________ for conserving water
Definition
1) Water
2) Kidneys
3) Endotherms
4) Metabolic
5) Nitrogenous
6) Kidneys
Term
_________ help maintain homeostasis by regulating fluid balance and excreting metabolic wastes.
Definition
1) Kidney
Term
The kidneys produce the enzyme _________ which regulates fluid balance and blood pressure.
Definition
1) Renin
Term
The kidneys produce two hormones:
-_________ (stimulates RBC production)
-_________ (stimulates calcium absorption by intestine)
Definition
1) Erythroprotein
2) 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3
Term
The _________ is the functional unit of the kidney
Definition
1) Nephron
Term
Which type of nephron is more numerous?
Definition
1) Cortical nephrons
Term
Which type of nephron has relatively small glomeruli?
Definition
1) Cortical nephrons
Term
Which type of nephron is located entirely within the cortex or outermedulla?
Definition
1) Cortical nephrons
Term
Which type of nephron is less numerous?
Definition
1) Juxtamedullary nephrons
Term
Which type of nephron has relatively large glomeruli?
Definition
1) Juxtamedullary nephrons
Term
Which type of nephron has very long loops of Henle and extend deep into the medulla?
Definition
1) Juxtamedullary nephrons
Term
What is the flow of blood circulation within the kidney?
Definition
1) Renal artery -> efferent arteriols -> glomerular capillaries -> efferent arterioles -> small veins -> renal vein
Term
What three factors contribute to urine formation?
Definition
1) Filtration (of plasma
2) Reabsorption (of needed materials)
3) Secretion (of substances such as potassium and hydrogen ions into the renal tubule)
Term
In filtration, plasma filters through the __________ __________ into Bowman's capsule.
Definition
1) Glomerular capillaries
Term
In filtration, blood flows through the __________ __________ under __________ pressure, forcing more than 10% if the plasma out of them and into __________ __________.
Definition
1) Glomerular capillaries
2) High
3) Bowman's capsule
Term
What are three factors that contribute to filtration?
Definition
1) High hydrostatic blood pressure in glomerular capillaries
2) Large surface area for filtration provided by the glomerular capillaries
3) Great permeability of the glomerular capillaries
Term
During reabsorption about 99% of filtrate is reabsorbed from the __________ __________ into blood leaving only 1.5L to be excreted as urine during a 24 hour period.
Definition
1) Renal tubules
Term
During reabsorption about 65% of filtrate is reabsorbed by the __________ __________ __________.
Definition
1) Proximal convoluted tubule
Term
Simple epithelial cells lining the __________ __________ help in reabsorption.
Definition
1) Renal tubule
Term
What are two usable materials are returned to the blood during reabsorption?
Definition
1) Glucose
2) Amino acids
Term
The maximum rate at which a substance can be reabsorbed is called __________ __________ __________.
Definition
1) Tubular transport maximum (Tm)
Term
Secretion primarily occurs in the region of the __________ __________ __________.
Definition
1) Distal convoluted tubule
Term
During secretion, hydrogen, ammonium, potassium ions, creatine, and some drugs are actively transported into the __________ __________ to become part of the urine.
Definition
1) Renal tubule
Term
__________ is directly responsible for the regulation of pH in the blood.
Definition
1) Secretion
Term
During secretion, CO2 combines with water to form __________ __________ in tubules and collecting ducts.
Definition
1) Carbonic acid
Term
During secretion __________ ions are also secreted.
Definition
1) K+
Term
The __________ __________ is a long, straight, set of capillaries that extend from the efferent tubules of the juxtamedullary nephrons.
Definition
1) Vasa recta
Term
By the time filtrate reaches the __________ __________, its composition has been precisely adjusted
Definition
1) Renal pelvis
Term
What hormone increases the permeability of collecting ducts to water, increasing reabsorption and decreasing water excretion?
Definition
1) Antidiuretic hormone (ADH)
Term
What hormone increases sodium reabsorption?
Definition
1) Aldosterone
Term
What hormone constricts blood vessels, which raises blood pressure and stimulates aldosterone secretion.
Definition
1) Angiostensin II
Term
What hormone dilates afferent arterioles, inhibits sodium reabsorption by collecting ducts, inhibits aldosterone secretion, and decreases blood pressure?
Definition
1) Atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP)
Term
__________ is released by the pituitary gland in response to an increase in osmotic concentration of the blood.
Definition
1) ADH
Term
__________ increases the permeability of the collecting ducts to water and as a result, forces more water to be reabsorbed.
Definition
1) ADH
Term
__________ and __________ work antagonistically.
Definition
1) Aldosterone
2) ANP
Term
When blood pressure decreases, cells of the juxtaglomerular apparatus secrete __________, which leads to production of __________.
Definition
1) Renin
2) Angiotensin II
Term
__________ stimulates aldosterone release, which raises blood pressure.
Definition
1) Angiotensin II
Term
Name the type of nephron that has the long loop of Henle.
Definition
1) Juxtamedullary nephrons
Term
In which part of the nephron does filtration happen?
Definition
1) The glomerulus
Term
Which hormone works against Aldosterone?
Definition
1) ANP
Term
How is NaCl reabsorbed?
Definition
1) Through secretion of aldosterone; absorption on upper ascending loop
Term
Where do you find podocytes?
Definition
1) The wall of Bowman's capsule
Term
What is the source of ANP hormone?
Definition
1) The heart
Term
The __________ is the functional unit of the vertebra kidney.
Definition
1) Nephron
Term
Urine formation is accomplished by all of the following except:
a. Filtration of plasma
b. Secretion (of ions like potassium, hydrogen, etc.)
c. Reabsorption of needed materials
d. None of the above
Definition
1) d. None of the above
Term
Which of the following factors contribute toward filtration?
a. Hydrostatic blood pressure in glomerular capillaries
b. Large surface area for filtration provided by highly coiled glomerular capillaries
c. Great permeability (posority) of the glomerular capillaries
d. Aldosterone
e. A, B & C only
f. All of the above
Definition
1) f. All of the above
Term
Which of the following process can contribute the most to regulate the pH of blood?
a. Filtration
b. Reabsorption
c. Secretion
d. The hormone ADH
Definition
1) c. Secretion
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