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17 Cards in this Set
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Give an example of homeostasis in the kidney |
Regulating the concentration and volume of body fluids |
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The functional use of the kidney is the nephron |
True |
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The medulla of the kidney secretes epinephrine |
False |
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Each kidney contains about one million nephrons |
True |
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Toxins including area (in mammals) is driven out of the glomerumus into the bowmans capsule |
True |
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The bowmans capsule, the proximal convoluted tubule, and the distent convoluted tubule are in the cortex of the kidney. |
True |
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The kidney controls the water balance in the body |
True |
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The inter-weaving of the nephron is essential for the concentration of urea in the urine. |
True |
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Urine leaves our body through the urethra |
True |
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Efferent arterioles enter the bowmans capsule and afferent arterioles leave the bowman's capsule. |
False |
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The kidney filters about 180 liters of blood per day |
True |
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In the proximal convoluted tubule useful molecules are collected and brought back into the circulartory system such as glucose and amino acids, but not the exotic materials. |
True |
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The bowman's capsules is the beginning of the nephron |
True |
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Blood pressure is the force that drives molecules out of the glomerulus into the bowman's capsule. |
True |
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The collection duct of the kidney drains into the _________. and this enters the __________. . |
Ureter, urinary bladder* |
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What happened to the nephron if the blood pressure drop significantly? |
Blood wont be able to be filtered and the kidney could turn off |
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Blood pressure drives red blood cells and plasma proteins glomerulus |
False |