Lecture Exam 4: Urogenital/Reproductive Flashcards
What is the functional unit of the kidney?
Nephron
What is glamariolus?
Tufted capillaries
Where does the Archinephric duct drain?
drained to cloaca or bladder
What are the characteristics of the earliest vertebrate kidney?
Filtration system
Extended entire length of body cavity
External glomeruli
Archinephric duct, which drains to cloaca/bladder
What is a pronephric kidney?
1st embryonic tubules in all vertebrates
Where is the pronephric kidney located?
Anteriorly
What is the function of the pronephric kidney?
Pronephros only functions temporarily until the mesonephric kidney attaches; glomerulus and tubules
When does the pronephros function until?
Until the glomeruli and tubules that sit posteriorly move up and become functional
What duct drains pronephros?
Pronephric duct
What is mesonephric kidney?
Functional adult kidney of fish and amphibians
Embryonic kidney in reptiles, birds, and mammals
Whats connected to the mesonephric duct?
Tubules
What is the mesonephric kidney in sharks?
Opisthonephric
What happens with the mesonephros in males?
Anterior tubules conduct sperm from the testis to the mesonephric duct (sexual kidney)
What is lost in an amniote kidney?
Pronephric kidney
What happens with the mesonephric kidney in an amniote?
Involutes (curls up) at birth
What kind of kidney does an amniote have?
Metanephric
What are the characteristics of a metanephric kidney?
Large number of corpuscles
Drained by ureter
Mesonephric duct
What does the mesonephric duct turn into in mammal? amphibians?
Vas deferens and
Ductus deferens
What makes up the renal corpuscle?
Renal capsule + glomerulus
What is the anatomy of the Nephron
Renal corpuscle
PCT
Nephron loop
-Ascending
-Descending
DCT
Collecting ducts
Peritubular capillary network
What is the functional part of the kidney?
Nephron
Where is the point of attachment in the amniote kidney?
Proximal C tubule
When does urine become urine?
When it enters the collecting ducts
What is urine before it enters the collecting ducts?
Filtrate
Afferent =
Arrive
Efferent=
Exit
What animals don’t have a urinary bladder?
Snakes, crocodilians, and birds
Where does the bladder arise from in amphibians and mammals?
Evaginations of cloacal wall
What are gonads?
Testis
Ovaries