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1
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What is homeostasis?

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Keeping the conditions in the internal environment of the body relatively constant.

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What is osmoregulation?

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Maintenance of water and salt contents of the internal environment.

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What is internal environment?

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The inside of the body

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What is tissue fluid?

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Watery solution of salt, glucose and other solutes

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How is the tissue fluid formed?

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It is formed by the leakage from blood capillaries

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6
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Why is homeostasis important?

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It is important because cells with only function properly if they are bathed in a tissue fluid which provide them with their optimum conditions.

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7
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Why is removing excretory products important?

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Because they are toxic to cells.

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8
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What are some examples of nitrogenous waste?

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Urea and ammonia

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9
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Select substances that can be stored.
(Carbohydrates, Fats, Proteins)

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Carbohydrates, Fats

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10
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How much urine does an adult human produce?

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1.5 dm^3

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What does volume of urine produce in a day depend on?

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It depends on amount of water drunk and volume loses in other form such as sweat.

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12
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What happened to protein as they cannot be stored?

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They are converted into carbohydrate and main nitrogen containing waste product urea by the liver.

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13
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Is urea metabolic waste?

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Yes

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14
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Why does urea passes into the blood?

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They passed into the blood to be filtered out by the kidneys during the formation of urea.

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Why faeces are not the metabolic waste?

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Because they contain a few products of metabolisms, and only the remains of undigested food along with bacteria and dead cell

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16
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Does kidney carry out both homeostatic and excretion?

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Yes

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17
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Oxygenated blood enter kidney through —–.

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Renal artery

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18
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The blood entering the kidney is high pressure.

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True

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19
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Deoxygenated blood leaves the kidneys through —–.

A

renal vein

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20
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Urine leaves the kidneys through —–.

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ureters

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21
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What does the wall of urethra contain?

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Sphincter muscles

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22
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Where does urine store?

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Bladder

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23
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What does sphincter muscle have?

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The upper sphincter muscle is involuntary so, it can’t be controlled.
The lower sphincter muscle is voluntary so, it can be controlled.

24
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What does cortex contain?

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Cortex contain many blood vessels branches from the renal artery and nephrons.

25
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Which carry the urine from kidneys to the bladder?

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The pelvis is connected with the ureter, carrying the urine to the bladder.

26
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Where in the nephron is blood filtered?

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Blood filtered and enter the capsule passing cells of capillary wall, basement membrane and cells of Bowman’s capsule.

27
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What separated the blood in the glomerulus and bowman’s capsule?

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Capillary walls and wall of capsule where there is basement membrane which is fine molecular filter between them.

28
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What is glomerular filtrate?

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The fluid that entered the capsule space is called glomerular filtrate.

29
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What is ultrafiltration?

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The process where the filter separate different sized molecules under pressure is called ultrafiltration.

30
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How much glomerular filtrate does kidney produce per minute and per day and how much is secreted from body every day?

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Kidney produces 0.125 dm^3 of glomerular filtrate and 180 dm^3 per day but only 1.5 dm^3 of urine is secreted from body per day.

31
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What are the names of blood in and blood out of the glomerulus?

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Blood in - Afferent
Blood out - Efferent

32
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What substances are filter and not filtered during ultrafiltration or urine?

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Substances that are filtered - glucose, urea, water and ions

Substances that are unfiltered - Protein, blood cells

33
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What happened to flow rate, glucose, protein, urea and Na+ at blood plasma, glomerular filtrate, end of first coiled tube and collecting duct?

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In the blood plasma

protein - contain
glucose - contain
urea - contain
Na+ - contain

In the glomerular filtrate

flow rate - 100%
protein - not contain
glucose - contain
urea - contain
Na + - contain

In the first coiled tube

flow rate - 20%
protein - not contain
glucose - not contain
urea - contain x 3
Na+ - contain

In the collecting duct

flow rate - 1%
Protein - not contain
glucose - not contain
urea - contain x 60
Na+ - contain x 2

34
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Why the urea become more as it pass rest of the nephron?

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As more water reabsorbed as it passes through the nephron, the urine become more concentrated with urea.

35
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What is selective reabsorption?

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Selective reabsorption is the process of reabsorbing different amounts of various substances.

36
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What is the function of loop of Henlé?

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It concentrates the fluid in the tubule by reabsorbing more water into the blood.

37
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Which kind of loop of Henlé do desert animals, animals which have easy access to water and humans contain?

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Desert animals have long loops of Henlé, animals which have easy access to water has short loops of Henlé and humans contain mixture of long and short loops.

38
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What can long loop of Henlé make?

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Long loop of Henlé can make more concentrated urine, conserving water in the bodies.

39
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When you drink a lot of water, how will it affect urine content?

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  • Blood concentration decreased
  • Which is detected by the hypothalamus
  • Stimulate the pituitary produce less ADH
  • Less ADH causes collecting duct to become less permeable to water
  • Less water is reabsorbed
  • More urine is excreted (urine concentration decrease)
40
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In a hot summer day, you have sweat a lot, how will it affect urine?

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  • The blood concentration increase
  • Which is detected by hypothalamus
  • Stimulate pituitary produce more ADH
  • More ADH result collecting duct to become more permeable to water
  • More water is reabsorbed
  • Less urine is excreted (Urine concentration increase)
41
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Difference between cold blood and warm blood?

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Cold blood animals body temperature changed depending on the environment unlike the warm blood animals which have constant pressure have ability to travel anywhere.

42
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What is other names of warm and cold blooded animals?

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Homeothermic - warm blooded (endotherms)
Poikilothermic - cold blooded

43
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What do both warm and cold blood animals do to adapt the environment?

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Depending on the environment, their behavior change.

44
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What is the main difference between cold and warm blooded animals?

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warm blood animals can keep their body temperature using physiological change.

45
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What monitor the change in body temperature in mammals?

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Thermoregulatory center in the hypothalamus

46
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What are the functions of human skin?

A
  • Forming tough outer layer which resist mechanical damage
  • Forming impermeable membrane preventing water loss
  • Acting as sensor for touch and temperature change
  • Controlling the heat loss through body surface
  • Acting as barrier for pathogen to enter
47
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What is epidermis consist of?

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Epidermis consist of dead cells which stops water loss and protect body against invasion of microorganism.

48
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What does hypodermis contain?

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Hypodermis contain fat tissues which insulate the body against heat loss and store of energy.

49
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What does dermis layer contain?

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Dermis layer contain many sensory receptors, sweat glands, small blood vessels and hair follicles.

50
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What does sweat glands do in hot condition?

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In hot conditions

  • More sweat is produced
  • Sweat only have cooling effects it evaporates using heat energy from body.
51
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What does hair erecter muscle do in cold condition?

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In cold conditions

  • Hair erecter muscles contract
  • Causing hairs to pulled upright
  • Trapping a layer of air (poor conductor of heat) next to the skin
  • Less heat is lost

But in warm conditions there will be thinner layers of trapped air meaning more heat will be lost.

52
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What happens to blood vessels at hot and cold conditions?

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In hot condition vasodilation occurs

  • arterioles leading to capillary loop dilate
  • increasing the blood flow to the skin’s surface
  • As more blood flow through these loops, more heat is radiated
  • Cooling the body down

In cold conditions vasoconstrictions occurs

  • arterioles leading to capillaries loops constrict
  • decreasing the blood flow to the skin’s surface
  • As less blood flow through these loops, less heat is radiated
  • Reducing heat loss through surface of the body
53
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What does hormone adrenaline stimulate in cold condition?

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They stimulate the increase in metabolism, generating heat.

54
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What is shivering?

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Shivering occurs where the muscles contract and relax rapidly.

55
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What are some change in body that take place to keep temperature?

A
  • Sweating
  • vasodilation
  • vasoconstriction,
  • hair erections
  • shivering
  • changes in metabolisms and some behavioral change
    keep the body temperature.
56
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Can amino acids be stored?

A

No

57
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Which break down the amino acids?

A

Liver

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