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Excretory System
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System in charge of removing wastes from your metabolism. As wastes are removed, you are maintaining homeostasis.
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Kidneys
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acts like a filter.
Blood, water, and waste enter kidneys. Filter traps wastes (excess H20, salt, and urea). Blood and some water flow out and back into the body. Remaining wastes combine to form urine. |
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Nephrons
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Filtering factories in the kidney that remove wastes from blood.
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Urea
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Chemical produced from making proteins.
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Ureter
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Narrow tube allowing urine to flow out of the kidneys and into the urinary bladder.
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Urinary Bladder
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holds urine
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Urethra
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Tube via which urine exits the body
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Other organs that help to maintain homeostasis via excretion
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Lungs, skin, liver
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