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Chapter 44: Osmoregulation And Excrestion Flashcards

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What is Osmoregulation?

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the maintenance of constant osmotic pressure in the fluids of an organism by the control of water and salt concentrations.

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Gets rid of nitrogenous metabolites and other waste products

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Excretion

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The solute concentration of a solution, determines the movement of water across a selectively permeable membrane

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Osmolarity

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Isoosmotic with their surroundings and do not regulate their osmolarity
consisting only of some marine animals

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Osmocomformers

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expend energy to control water uptake and loss in a hyperosmotic or hypoosmotic environment

  • most organisms cannot withstand significant changes
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Osmoregulators

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Most animals cannot tolerate substantial changes in external osmolarity these animals are called…

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Stenohalines

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Animals that can survive large fluctuations in external osmolarity

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Euryhaline animals

Euryhaline osmocomformers and Euryhaline osmoregulators

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Most marine animals are ___________________

Most marine vertebrates and some invertebrates are _____________

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Osmocomformers

Osmoregulators

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Marine bony fish are ___________ to seawater.

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Hypoosmotic

Lose water by osmosis and gain salt by diffusion and from food

How do you they balance water loss? Excretion of salt ions from gills?

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How do you freshwater animals maintain water balance?

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Constantly take in water by osmosis from their hypoosmotic environment (lose salts by diffusion)

Salt loss by diffusion are replaced in foods and by uptake across the gills

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Adaptation in some aquatic invertebrates in temporary ponds lose almost all their body water and survive in a dormant state

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Anhydrobiosis (means life without water)

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Land animals maintain water balance by eating moist food and producing water metabolically through ____________

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Cellular respiration

Kangaroo rats get most of their water from metabolism

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Some animals convert ____________to less toxic compounds prior to excretion

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Ammonia (very toxic)

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Animals excrete nitrogenous wastes in different forms:

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  • ammonia
    -urea
    -Uric acid
    These differ in toxicity and the energy costs of producing them
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Where is ammonia released?

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Across the whole body surface or through gills

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The liver of mammals and most adult amphibians coverts ammonia to the less toxic ____

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Urea

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What is the advantage of excretion of wasted as urea?

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Low toxicity but higher energy cost

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  • relatively non-toxic and does not dissolve readily in water
  • it can be secreted as a paste with little water loss
  • more energetically expensive to produce than urea
  • insects, land snails, and many reptiles, including birds
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Uric acid

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What influences nitrogenous wastes of animals?

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  • depends on the animals availability to water
  • the immediate environment of the animals egg
  • the amount of nitrogenous waste is coupled to the animals energy budget
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Key functions of most excretory systems

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  • filtration
  • reabsorption
  • secretion
  • excretion
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Two functions of the kidneys?

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Excretion and osmoregulation

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What is the difference between cortical nephrons and juxtamedullary nephrons?

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Cortical is short- extends from renal cortex and a little bit into the renal medulla

Juxtamedullary nephrons- extend deeper into the renal medulla (seen more in dessert animals) allows for more water absorption

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Breakdown of nucleotides (crystals of this can result in gout)

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Uric acid

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Amino acid metabolism. Ammonia combines with carbon dioxide.

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Urea

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What are the functions of the urinary system?
- excretion of metabolic wastes - maintenance of water-salt balance (regulate blood pressure) - maintenances is acid-base balance (blood pH 7.4) - secretion of hormones(renin —> aldosterone adrenal cortex) —>reabsorption of sodium by Kinsey’s), erythropoietin
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Kindest are located in the __________ region Covered by a tough capsule of_________
Lumbar Fibrous connective tissue
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The ureters have a ________-layered wall consisting of.... Conveys urine by...
Mucosa, smooth muscle, outer connective tissue peristalsis
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_____ Sphincter muscles in the bladder control the release of urine into the urethra
Two
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Urination is also known as ...
Micturition
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Stretch receptors in the wall of the badder send impulses when bladder fills to _____ml -motor impulses from spinal cord, bladder contractions, Micturition occurs
250
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Where does filtration take place? What is the functional units of the kidneys?
Nephron Each kidney has over one million nephrons
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Each nephron has its own blood supply From the renal artery, ________ leads into the glomareous Blood leaves the glomareous via an ____________ . This takes blood to peritubular capillaries (these surround the rest of the nephron) blood then goes to renal vein
Afferent arterioles | Efferent arteriole
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-cubodial epithelial cells with microvilli | Increased surface area for absorption
Proximal convoluted tubule
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Part of the nephron that has simple squamous epithelium It’s surrounded by peritubular capillaries
Loop of Henle
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- cuboidal epithelial cells- lack microvilli | - designed for tubular excretion rather than reabsorption
Distal convoluted tubule
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Distal convoluted tubule of several nephrons enter one _____________. Many of these carry urine to the renal pelvis
Collecting ducts
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The contents of Bowmens capsule is called ...
Filtrate
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Glomerular filtration....
- blood enters the afferent arteriole and glomerulus - the filtrate produced in bowmens capsule contains salts, glucose, amino acids, vitamins, nitrogenous wastes, and other small molecules
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- Place of reabsorption of ions, water, and nutrients - Molecules are transported actively and passively from the filtrate into interstitial fluid and then capillaries - some toxic materials are actively secreted into the filtrate - materials to be excreted become more concentrated
Proximal tubule
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What is being actively transported in the proximal tubule? | Passively?
Sodium , potassium, glucose... chloride, and water follows passively
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Reabsorption of water continues through channels formed by ____________ proteins in the descending loop of henle. What is left behind?
Aquaporin Salt, not permeable to salt
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Movement of water in the descending loop of Henle is driven by the high ___________ of the interstitial fluid, witch is ____________ to the filtrate Filtrate becomes increasingly concentrated
Osmolarity Hyperosmotic
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In the ascending limb of the loop of Henle, _______ but not ________ is able to diffuse from the tubule into the interstitial fluid The filtrate becomes increasing .....
Salt, water Dilute
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What area lacks water channels? And is impermeable to water?
Ascending limb of the loop of Henle
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In the ascending loop of Henle, in the bottom portion that is deeper and ___________, salt will leave passively or actively? What about the top, thicker portion?
Thinner. Passively, Salt concentration is high! Actively
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The main function of the distal tubule is ____________ which will regulate what In the body?
Secretion, pH Regulation (controlled movement of ions) Leaves the filtrate to go back to the blood If there is excess it is put into the filtrate to be secreted *fine tuning*
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The distal tubule regulates the _______ and _______ concentrations of body fluids.
K+ and NaCl
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- processes filtrate into urine - carries filtrate through the Medulla to the renal pelvis * One of the most important task is reabsorption of solutes and water - urine is hyperosmotic to body fluids
Collecting duct
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Hyperosmotic urine can be produced because considerable ___________ is expended to transport solutes against concentration gradients
Energy
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The two primary solutes affecting osmolarity are
NaCl and urea
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- System is surrounded by vessels - Opposite of the flow of filtrate * high energy process!
Countercurrent multiplier system
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Where is osmolarity the lowest and where is it the highest?
Cortex —> outer medulla——> inner medulla
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The ____________ nephron is key to water conservation in terrestrial animals Mammals that inhabit dry environments have _______ loops of Henle while those in freshwater have _______ loops of Henle
Juxtamedullary Long, short
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The osmolarity of the urine is regulated by nervous and hormonal control Permeability of collecting ducts is under ______________ control
Hormonal
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An increase in osmolarity triggers the release of _______, which helps to conserve water
ADH
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______________ is produced by the posterior pituitary gland. also called?
Antidiuretic hormone Vasopressin
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What happen in the presence and absence of ADH?
- The collecting duct becomes more permeable to water and concentrated urine is produced. - A dilute urine is produced (diuresis)
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Osmoreceptors in the ____________ monitors blood osmolarity, can trigger release of ADH from the ____________.
Hypothalamus | Pituitary gland
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This simulates sodium reabsorption to get to set point
The Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System
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Hormonal regulation at the distal convoluted tubule occurs when....
Blood volume,therefore , blood pressure of the glomareous is low (not sufficient for glomareous filtration)
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In the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System... The juxtaglomerular apparatus secretes _________ This is an enzyme that changes ______________ into ____________.
Renin Angiotensinogen into angiotensinogen 1
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Angiotensin 1 gets converted into angiotensin 2. Angiotensin 2 stimulates the adrenaline cortex to release ________
Aldosterone
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Aldosterone promotes the excretion of _______ and the reabsorption of ______. Reabsorption of this is followed by the reabsorption of water Blood volume and blood pressure then increases
K+, Na+
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______________ raises blood pressure and decreases blood flow to the kidneys Stimulates the release of the hormone ____________, which increases blood volume and pressure
Angiotensin 2 Aldosterone
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ADH and RAAS both increase water reabsorption, but only ______ will respond to a decrease in blood volume
RAAS
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Another hormone ______________, opposes the RAAS. When there is an increase in blood volume
Atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP)
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- secreted by right atrium in response to stretching - indicates increased blood volume - inhibits renin secretion by juxtaglomerular apparatus - inhibits aldosterone release from adrenal glands - promotes sodium excretion -(NaCl reabsorption inhibited in collecting duct)
Atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP)

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