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Excretory System Flashcards

1
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What is excretion?

A

The removal of waste products from the body

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2
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What are metabolic reactions?

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All the reactions taking place in the body

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3
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When is nitrogenous waste form?

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During metabolic reactions

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4
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How do these waste products become highly toxic?

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If they accumulate ankle damaging body tissues

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5
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What would an accumulation of excess water lead to?

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This wrapped homeostasis and lead to all sorts of complications

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6
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Define homeostasis

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Maintaining the internal environment of the body in a steady state so that the cells can function properly

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7
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Define internal environment

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Tissue fluid and blood make up the internal environment of the body

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8
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Why is the liver not and excretory organ?

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Many waste products formed in the liver and excreted somewhere else

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9
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List the different types of nitrogenous waste

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  1. Urea
  2. Uric acid
  3. Creatinine
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10
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How is urea formed?

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Excess amino acids

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11
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What happens in the process of deamination?

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Amino acids are broken down into ammonia and then into your area

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12
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How is uric acid form?

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Breakdown of nucleic acids

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13
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Where is creatinine found?

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Skeletal muscle cells

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14
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How is creatinine formed?

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Creatine phosphate

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15
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Name non-nitrogenous waste

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  1. Toxins and drugs
  2. Alcohol
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16
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What does toxins and drugs consist of?

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Painkillers, tranquilises and nicotine

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17
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What is the effect of alcohol?

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Causes permanent damage to the liver cells if a lot is drunk over a long period

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18
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What is the damage to liver cells known as?

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Cirrhosis of liver

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19
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What are the excretory products are formed in the liver?

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  1. Bile pigments
  2. Cholesterol
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20
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When are bile pigments formed?

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From breakdown of red blood cells

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21
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When is cholesterol formed?

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Breakdown of bile salts

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22
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How can we maintain homeostasis?

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Get rid of waste products which continually defuses into the bloodstream

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23
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Where does the process of excretion take place?

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Excretory organs

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24
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Name the four excretory organs

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  1. Kidneys
  2. Lungs
  3. Skin
  4. Gut/colon
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25
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What does the kidneys excrete?

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All of the nitrogenous waste and non-nitrogenous waste formed in the liver

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26
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What does the lungs do excretion?

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Corbin dioxide released from cellular respiration is carried to lungs in blood and exhaled

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27
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What is also excreted by the lungs?

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Water and heat

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28
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What is released onto the surface of the skin in the foremost switch?

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Water, salts and small amount of urea

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29
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Where is sweat released from?

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Sweat glands

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30
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How is the body cooled?

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Sweat evaporates and heat is lost

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31
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How is sweat excretion and secretion?

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E: get rid of waste
S: maintain body temperature

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32
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Define secretion

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Release of useful substances from specialise cells in the body

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33
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What is excreted in the colon?

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Bile pigments and cholesterol pass into the small intestine and a funny excreted into faeces

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34
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What is excreted with the faeces from the gut?

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Mucus and bacteria

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35
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Define egestion

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Removal of undigested in an absolute feed material, faeces from the gut

36
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What is the bladder?

A

Store the urine from the kidney

37
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How is the urine expelled from the bladder?

A

See the urethra during urination

38
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What is the main function of the year in the system?

A

Maintain homeostasis by regulating the volume and concentration of body fluids

39
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How does the urinary system maintain homeostasis?

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Filtering and re-absorbing materials from the blood

40
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Where is the urinary system found?

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The abdominal cavity

41
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What is the structure of the year and the system?

A

Check textbook

42
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Why is the right kidney slightly lower than the left kidney?

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Pushed down by larger right lobe

43
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How does the urinary system act in males?

A

Urethra passes through the penis and carry both urine and semen

44
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How does the urinary system act in females?

A

Carries urine which exit through a separate opening in front of the vaginal opening

45
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What are adrenal glands?

A

Endocrine glands + supra-renal glands

46
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Where are the adrenal glands situated?

A

Above each kidney
Not part excretory

47
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What does the adrenal glands secrete?

A

Aldosterone - regulate salt concentration

48
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Where are the kidneys found?

A

Abdominal cavity below diaphragm

49
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Where do the kidneys lie?

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Posterior wall on either side of vertebral column

50
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How are the kidneys kept in position?

A

Attached to a thin layer of connective tissue – peritoneum
Attach two large renal blood vessels

51
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What does the kidney look like?

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Been shaped and dark red in colour

52
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What is the hilum shape?

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In a border, facing the vertebral column is concave

53
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What is the hilum?

A

Ureter, renal blood vessels and nerves enter and leave kidney

54
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Name the three layers of supportive tissue surrounding the kidney

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  1. Renal capsule
  2. Adipose tissue
  3. Renal fascia
55
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What part of the kidney does the renal capsule cover?

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Covers the kidney surface – tough, fibrous

56
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What part of the kidney does the adipose tissue cover?

A

Fatty middle layer

57
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What does the adipose tissue do?

A

Hold the kidney in place and cushions it against blows

58
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What part of the kidney does the renal fascia cover?

A

How to layer of fibrous connective tissue

59
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What does the renal fascia do?

A

And is the kidney to surrounding structures

60
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Defined macroscopic

A

Can be seen with naked eye

61
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Define microscopic

A

Can only be seen under a microscope

62
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What are nephrons?

A

Tiny tightly packed tubular units

63
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We are nephrons found?

A

Cortex and medulla areas

64
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What on the front responsible for?

A

Removing waste matter from the blood

65
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What is each tubule in the nephron made up of?

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  1. Renal corpuscle
  2. Renal tubule
66
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Where is the renal corpuscle found?

A

Renal cortex

67
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What is the renal corpuscle made of?

A
  1. Bowman’s capsule
  2. Glomerulus
68
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What is the bowman’s capsule?

A

Cup-shaped structure

69
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What is the glomerulus?

A

Cluster of capillaries

70
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Where is the renal tubule found?

A

Cortex and medulla

71
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What is the renal tubule made up of?

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  1. Proximal convoluted tubule - cortex
  2. loop of Henle - medulla
  3. Distal convoluted tubule - cortex
72
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Where does the nephron lead to?

A

Collecting duct

73
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How many nephrons share the same collecting duct?

A

12 nephrons

74
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What is the collecting duct form?

75
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Why does the kidney have to be well supplied with blood vessels?

A

It maintains homeostasis by removing unwanted substances from the blood

76
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What to Waze is the kidney supplied with blood?

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  1. Renal artery
  2. Renal vein
77
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What is the renal artery?

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Branch of the aorta

78
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Where does the renal artery into the kidney?

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At the hilum and spreads through the medulla to the cortex

79
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What type of blood does the renal artery carry?

A

Blood rich in nitrogenous waste

80
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Where does the renal artery carry the blood to?

81
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What type of blood does the renal vein carry?

A

Purified, deoxygenated blood from the kidney

82
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Where does the renal vein carries about you?

A

Inferior vena cava

83
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Name the three major processes as fluid pass along the nephron

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  1. Glomerular filtration
  2. Tubular reabsorption
  3. Tubular excretion
84
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Short description of glomerular filtration

A

Fluid part of blood is filtered from the glomerulus into the cavity of the Bowmans capsule

85
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Short description of tubular reabsorption

A

Fluid flows along the renal tubule, useful substances are reabsorbed back into bloodstream

86
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What is tubular excretion?

A

Search an unwanted substances in the blood or actively excreted into the tubules

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