Exam 37: Maintaining the Internal Environment

Four of the five answers can be detected by testing the urine. Select the exception.

What type of tissue contains mitochondria that can release energy as heat, rather than storing it in ATP?

The mammalian ____ converts ammonia to urea.

Match the processes involved in urine formation with the correct description. -adds substances to the filtrate to form urine

Which vertebrate organ filters blood, adjust its composition, and produces urine?

During the process of glomerular filtration, what part of blood passes through the filter?

What is the most common cause of kidney failure?

In tubular reabsorption, ____.

Match the processes involved in urine formation with the correct description. -returns solutes and most water to the blood

Hypothermia occurs when ____.

Four of the five answers listed below are responses of the vertebrate body to heat. Select the exception.

Ions and breakdown products of organic molecules are actively transported from the peritubular capillaries to the filtrate within the nephron by ____.

The process of filtration in the glomerulus is driven by ____.

Which functional unit found in the kidney functions in filtration, reabsorption, and secretion?

A patient excretes a large volume of very dilute urine on a continuing basis. This is most likely due to ____.

Why is the selective permeability of the loop of Henle important for water reabsorption?

Which process is under voluntary control?

​Match the excretory organ with the correct description. Answers may be used more than once. -in grasshoppers, functions in the formation and excretion of uric acid

Which structure collects coelomic fluid in each segment of an earthworm and removes unwanted wastes while retaining essential solutes and water?

The tube leading from each kidney to the bladder is the ____.