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18 Cards in this Set
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What are two of the main functions of the excretory system?
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1. Regulate Water Balance
2. Removing Harmful Substances |
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What is the term used to define an excretory mechanism in which vacuoles accumulate water, merge with the plasma membrane, and release water into the environment?
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Contractile Vacuole
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What is the term used to define an excretory mechanism in which body fluids are filtered through cells which are excreted through tube systems through pores that exit the body?
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Flame Cells
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The vertebrate XXXXXXX consists of about one million individual filtering units called Nephrons.
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Kidney
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The nephron begins with a bulb-shaped body at one end, the XXXXXXX XXXXX.
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Bowmans Capsule
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Name the entire structure of A
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Kidney
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Name B
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Calyces
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Name C
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Renal Pelvis
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Name D
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Medulla
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Name E
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Cortex
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Name F
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Ureter
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Name G
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Renal Vein
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Name H
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Renal Artery
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The XXXXXXX XXXXXXXX in the kidney empties into the renal pelvis?
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Collecting Duct
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What is the term used to define a hormone that influences osmoregulation by increasing the reabsorption of water by the body and increases the concentration of salts in the urine?
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Antidiuretic Hormone
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What is the term used to define a hormone that influences osmoregulation by increasing water reabsorption and reabsorption of Na+?
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Aldosterone
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Animals convert NH3 to XXXXX in their livers.
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Urea
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Birds, insects, and many reptiles convert urea to XXXXXXX XXXXX for excretion, this helps conserve water.
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Uric Acid
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