Multiple Choice
Proper functioning of the human kidney requires considerable active transport of sodium in the kidney tubules.If these active transport mechanisms were to stop completely,how would urine production be affected?
A) No urine would be produced.
B) A lower-than-normal volume of urine which was less concentrated than the blood (hypotonic) would be produced.
C) A lower-than-normal volume of urine which was more concentrated than the blood (hypertonic) would be produced.
D) A greater-than-normal volume of urine equal in concentration to the blood (isotonic) would be produceD.
E) A greater-than-normal volume of urine that was more concentrated than the blood (hypertonic) would be produced.
Correct Answer:
Verified
Correct Answer:
Verified
Q15: A biologist discovers a new species of
Q16: In the normal path of urine
Q17: The blood supply to the loop of
Q18: An increase in the extracellular concentration of
Q19: Consider a tadpole becoming a toad.You would
Q21: The osmoregulatory and ionoregulatory problems facing a
Q22: Imagine that a mutation occurs such that
Q23: The filtrate that leaves the proximal convoluted
Q24: Predict what would happen to the volume
Q25: Which strategies would a seawater fish with