Digestion and Excretion

Question 1

Digestive organ that helps reabsorb water

Answer 1

Large intestine

Question 2

The mouth, esophagus, and stomach

Answer 2

Foregut

Question 3

Area of the kidney that reabsorbs water before passing urine to the bladder

Answer 3

Collecting duct

Question 4

Membrane protein that allows water through

Answer 4

Aquaporin

Question 5

Compounds produced by the liver that break down fats

Answer 5

Bile

Question 6

The large intestine and anus

Answer 6

Hindgut

Question 7

A protein that breaks down other proteins

Answer 7

Protease

Question 8

Kidney cells that encase blood capillaries

Answer 8

Bowman’s capsule

Question 9

Hormone that causes gall bladder contraction

Answer 9

CCK

Question 10

Tubule located after the Loop of Henle that reabsorbs some solutes

Answer 10

Distal

Question 11

Hormone that causes stomach acid release

Answer 11

Gastrin

Question 12

Stores bile

Answer 12

Gall bladder

Question 13

Part of nephron that generates a solute gradient in the kidney through countercurrent movement

Answer 13

Loop of Henle

Question 14

Set of tubules that comprise the functional unit of the kidney

Answer 14

Nephron

Question 15

Site of blood/kidney molecule exhange

Answer 15

Glomerulus

Question 16

Nitrogenous waste produced in mammals

Answer 16

urea

Question 17

An inactive form of an enzyme that often needs to be cleaved in order to function

Answer 17

Zymogen

Question 18

Organ that secretes trypsin and bicarbonate ions

Answer 18

Pancreas

Question 19

Tube that carries food from the mouth to the stomach

Answer 19

Esophagus

Question 20

A protease secreted by the stomach

Answer 20

pepsin

Question 21

Hormone that causes the pancreas to secrete

Answer 21

Secretin

Question 22

The set of bacteria that live in and on a human

Answer 22

Microbiome

Question 23

Evolved from gill arches to better grasp food

Answer 23

Jaw

Question 24

Cell-cell junction that seals off two area completely

Answer 24

Tight junction

Question 25

The small intestine

Answer 25

Midgut

Question 26

Muscular organ that secretes acid to break down food

Answer 26

Stomach

Question 27

Tubule located just after the Bowman's Capsule that reabsorbs some solutes back to the blood

Answer 27

Proximal

Question 28

Organ used for nutrient absorption

Answer 28

Small intestines

Question 29

Extensions of intestinal cells that increase their surface area

Answer 29

Microvilli

Question 30

Organ that extracts nitrogenous waste

Answer 30

Kidney

Question 31

Folds in the intestinal wall

Answer 31

Villi

Question 32

A starch digesting enzyme produced in the mouth

Answer 32

Amylase

Question 33

Produces bile

Answer 33

Liver

Question 34

Embryonic germ layer that forms the digestive tract

Answer 34

Endoderm