Chapter 4 - Enzymes and Energy Flashcards
In humans, what is the final waste product of amino acid metabolism that is excreted in the urine and also contributes significantly to the total osmolarity of the interstitial fluid of the kidney?
Urea
The fluid entering the glomerular capsule is called the ___ because it passes through three layers that serve as selective filters.
Filtrate
The functions of the kidneys include:
- pH regulation
- regulation of blood plasma volume
- removal of waste products from the plasma
Uterine movies from the renal pelvis in the kidney to the urinary bladder via long ducts called the _____
ureter
Which of the following is required in order for water to be reabsorbed back into the vascular system from the tubules?
a concentration gradient
How are substances “cleared” from the blood during the process of urine formation?
- secreted by the tubular cells
- filtered at the glomerulus
Which of the following is a function of the kidneys?
Regulation of electrolytes
The membrane transport process in which molecules and ions are moved out of the peritubular capillaries into the nephron tubule is called _____
secretion
What is the function of the urinary bladder?
to store urine prior to excretion
A substance in the blood can be removed or cleared by the process of ____- at the glomeruli or through _____ by the tubular cells into the filtrate.
filtration, secretion
_____ arer octopus shaped cells that have large cytoplasmic extensions that interdigitate to form the third filtration barrier known as the slit diaphragm
podocytes
The vasa recta of the kidney:
- maintain the hypertonicity of the rental medulla
- remove water that diffuses out of the descending limb of the loop of henle
- perform countercurrent exchange
where are the kidneys located in the body?
- on either side of the spine just below the diaphragm and liver
______ occurs when filtered molecules are returned to the blood from the filtrate in the tubules
reabsorption
What are the long, thin walled blood vessels that run parallel to the the nephron loops of juxtamedullary nephrons?
vasa recta
Autoregulation of glomerular filtration rate in the kidney is accomplished by:
- tubuloglomerular feedback
- myogenic construction of the afferent arteriole
what is the function of the ureters?
-the ureters channel urine from the renal pelvis to the urinary bladder
____ is a waste product of amino acid metabolism in humans that is excreted in the urine.
urea
The law of the conservation of energy states that
energy can neither be created or destroyed
Enzymes work by lowering the ____ energy required for the chemical reaction to take place.
activation
Which type of inhibition would be regulated by negative feedback?
- allosteric inhibition
- end product inhibition
Enzymes that differ by a few amino acids but have the same function as the normal enzyme as the normal enzyme are called _____
isoenzymes
In reference to enzymes, riboflavin would function as a(n)
coenzyme
An enzyme
- lowers the activation energy in a reaction
- is a protein ( or a ribozyme)
- is not used up in a chemical reaction
Enzymatic reaction are dependent on the amount of the energy available to run the reaction
false
_____ reaction allow for the exergonic reactions to provide energy required for the endergonic reactions
Coupied
During cellular respiration, the hydrogen carriers are
- NAD
- FAD
If the shape of the enzyme needs to be slightly altered in order to receive the substrate, one would say that this would refer to ____ ____ model of enzyme activity
induced-fit
When they are acting to facilitate metabolic reaction, calcium, magnesium, and zinc would be considered
cofactors
when the graph levels off, and reaction reaches its maximum rate, the enzyme is said to be fully
saturation
A ______pathway will begin with a substrate, pass through intermediate reactions, and end with a product
metabolic
The increase in entropy during energy transformations describes
the second law of thermodynamics