Bio 181 Ch.16

Front 1

Give an example of homeostasis in the kidney

Back 1

Regulating the concentration and volume of body fluids

Front 2

The functional use of the kidney is the nephron

Back 2

True

Front 3

The medulla of the kidney secretes epinephrine

Back 3

False

Front 4

Each kidney contains about one million nephrons

Back 4

True

Front 5

Toxins including area (in mammals) is driven out of the glomerumus into the bowmans capsule

Back 5

True

Front 6

The bowmans capsule, the proximal convoluted tubule, and the distent convoluted tubule are in the cortex of the kidney.

Back 6

True

Front 7

The kidney controls the water balance in the body

Back 7

True

Front 8

The inter-weaving of the nephron is essential for the concentration of urea in the urine.

Back 8

True

Front 9

Urine leaves our body through the urethra

Back 9

True

Front 10

Efferent arterioles enter the bowmans capsule and afferent arterioles leave the bowman's capsule.

Back 10

False

Front 11

The kidney filters about 180 liters of blood per day

Back 11

True

Front 12

In the proximal convoluted tubule useful molecules are collected and brought back into the circulartory system such as glucose and amino acids, but not the exotic materials.

Back 12

True

Front 13

The bowman's capsules is the beginning of the nephron

Back 13

True

Front 14

Blood pressure is the force that drives molecules out of the glomerulus into the bowman's capsule.

Back 14

True

Front 15

The collection duct of the kidney drains into the _________. and this enters the __________. .

Back 15

Ureter, urinary bladder*

Front 16

What happened to the nephron if the blood pressure drop significantly?

Back 16

Blood wont be able to be filtered and the kidney could turn off

Front 17

Blood pressure drives red blood cells and plasma proteins glomerulus

Back 17

False