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Why are fluctuations in homoeostasis dangerous?

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They can disrupt biochemical activities and large fluctuations can kill the cells

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What is homoeostasis?

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The maintenance of a constant internal environment

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What four internal features must be kept constant?

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Chemical composition – blood pH ranging from 7.35 to 7. 45 – osmotic pressure, Osmo regulation – temperature

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What are effectors?

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Things that change in response to stimuli in order to correct and achieve homoeostasis

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Name some of the response mechanisms that change in the body to correct temperature?

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Blood vessels constrict or dilate – sweat produced – piloerection – shepherding thermogenesis

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What does it mean if one solution is hyperosmotic to another?

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Hyper osmotic – means the solution contains more solutes than other solution it therefore contains less water

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What does it mean if one solution is hypoosmotic to another?

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It means it contains less solutes than the other solution therefore contains more water

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Define osmolarity

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The number of osmoles solute per litre of solution

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Name the three important regulatory functions of the kidney

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Removal of nitrogenous waste –
regulation of water content of the body – regulation of salt balance, sodium, potassium, chlorine, magnesium, calcium this is known as ionic regulation

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What three ways can ammonia be excreted?

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As ammonium, urea and you uric acid

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Describe the toxicity levels from high to low for ammonia, Urea and uric acid

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Ammonia high - urea low - uric acid very low

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Describe the solubility for ammonia, urea, Uric acid

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Ammonia has high solubility levels, urea has a low solubility levels, uric acid is almost not soluble

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Describe the metabolic cost for ammonia, urea, uric acid – from high to low

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Ammonia has no metabolic cost
Urea has some metabolic cost
Eurich acid has a high metabolic cost

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What animals would have ammonia in the form of nitrogenous waste?

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Fish or aquatic animals

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What animals with have urea in the form of nitrogenous waste?

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Mammals, adult terrestrial amphibians

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What animals would have uric acid in the form of the nitrogenous waste,

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birds and insects

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17
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What percentage of the bodyweight are the kidneys?

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1%

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18
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What did juxtamedullary nephrons mean

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Urine is very concentrated

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What are the two types of nephrons?

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Cortical and juxtamedullary

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What does cortical nephrons mean?

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Less concentrated urine

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What percentage of nephrons are cortical and juxtamedullary and humans?

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85% are cortical and 15% of juxtamedullary

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What animals have both juxtamedullary and cortical nephrons?

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Birds and mammals

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What animals contain only cortical nephrons?

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Reptiles and amphibians

24
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How does fluid escape Bowmans capsule?

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It moves by the process of ultrafiltration – the hydrostatic pressure of the blood plasma a.k.a. blood pressure forces fluid and solutes through the glomerular capillaries into Bowmans capsule

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What type of energy process as the movement of fluid out of the Bowmans capsule?

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It is a passive process therefore no energy is required

26
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What can pass freely into Bowmans space?

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Anything less than 1.8 nm filter freely – water, glucose, urea, amino acids

27
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What is able to filter list file into Bowman space?

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Anything between 1.8 to 4. 2 nm

28
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What molecules do not filter through Bowman space?

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Anything larger than 4. 2 nm

29
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What prevents the movement of large molecules through the capillaries?

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The pores in endothelium range between 50 to 200 nm wide – podocyte split pores size are also 4 nanometres wide

30
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What Are podocyte split pores?

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They determine what can pass into bowmans space

31
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Define glomerular filtration rate

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the amount of fluid filtered into the kidney tubules per minute

32
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How many litres of blood passed through the kidneys every minute

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1.25 L

33
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How many litres of blood passes through the nephrons of the kidney daily?

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180 L

34
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How much water did the kidneys reabsorb from the blood?

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98 to 99%

35
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How many litres of urine is actually excreted a day?

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1 to 2.5 L

36
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What is energy process for forming urine?

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Both Mechanisms involve active transport

37
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What are the two mechanisms of forming urine?

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One requires the tubular reabsorption of water and solites back into the body and the other is the secretion of salts into the tubules to be lost in the urine

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What percentage of water and solUtes Are reabsorbed into the proximal and distal tubules?

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70 to 75% although it is mostly reabsorbed into the proximal tubes

39
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What is the maximum renal threshold mechanism for glucose?

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180 mg/ 100 ml

40
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What is the renal threshold mechanism?

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The limit as substance can be absorbed or filtered

41
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What does it mean if glucose is secreted in

urine?

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This as a sign of diabetes mellitus

42
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Where is the highest grading of NaCl in the loop of Henley?

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At the top of the hairpin

43
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How is NaCl filtered out of the thick ascending limb?

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Via facilitated diffusion as the wall is not permeable to water it is actively transported out of the thick segment in the outer medulla

44
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Where does water leave by osmosis in the loop of Henley?

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In the descending limb as the wall was not permeable to NaCl

45
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What happens in the collecting duct?

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More NaCl leaves, some uvea also leaves, water leaves by osmosis,

46
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What animals have only juxtamedullary nephrons?

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Desert mammals

47
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Why do desert mammals have very long Loops of Henley?

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This is due to their lots of NaCl pumps that produce minute quantities are very concentrated urine hyperosmotic to the blood

48
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Describe the kidney function of freshwater fish

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Freshwater fish are hyperosmotic to their surroundings so suffer a loss of salts and a large intake of water

49
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What is unique about the nephron structure and freshwater fish?

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Freshwater fish have no loops of Henley

50
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Describe the kidney physiology in marine salt water fish

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They are bony fish hypoosmotic to their surroundings so in danger of getting lots of salt and dehydrating

51
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What is unique about the nephron structure in salt water marine fish?

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The lack of glomeruli and Bowmans capsule

52
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What is unique about the role of gills in Osmo regulation in fish?

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Gills perform more osmoregulatory functions than the kidneys

53
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What hormones released from the posterior pituitary gland in response to dehydration?

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The anti-diuretic hormone a.k.a. ADH

54
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What does a DH trigger in the kidney?

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The release and insertion of Aquaporins a.k.a. proteins that allow water to be reabsorbed into the kidneys – the service water channels and lead to the formation of hyperosmotic urine

55
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What is diabetes insipidus?

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Lack of the ability to produce ADH or kidneys do not react to ADH

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