BIO205 Exam 3 Renal

______:

The concentration of all solutes in the blood.

_____ refers to the regulation of water and solute concentrations in the body fluids.

_____ refers to the regulation of specific ion concentrations in the body fluids.

_____:

An organism that can survive in a wide range of environmental salinities.

____:

Animals that can only tolerate a narrow range of salinity concentrations.

Most marine invertebrates maintain blood plasma and tissue fluid isosmotic to water, they are osmoconformers. The major blood osmolytes of marine invertebrates are ___ and TMAO (trimethylamine N-oxide)

Marine invertebrates are osmo_____ and iono___

Hagfish are osmo____ and regulators of divalent ions.

sharks, rays, skates (cartilaginous fishes) are osmoconformers and iono____.

Bony fish are osmo___ and iono___.