Ameoba Sisters: Urinary System

What are the TWO major roles of excretory system? Be sure to choose both of them.

• to maintain osmotic balance

• to produce metabolic waste

• to remove metabolic waste from blood

• to circulate fluid in the body

What is the function of ureters?

• They carry urine to the outside of the body.

• They filter out metabolic waste in blood.

• They carry urine to the urinary bladder.

Which one is the correct description of Glomerulus?

• a network of capilaries

• a network of kidney tubules

Which substance is NOT present in the filtrate?

• glucose

• amino acid

• plasma proteins

• urea

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What is NaCl?

• urea

• salt

• amino acid

What is the key function of promixmal distal tubule (first coiled tubule)?

• to reabsorb water and urea

• to reabsorb amino acids and glucose

• to reabsorb mineral and protein

Extra salt is reabsorbed in the ascending limb of the loop of Henle by

• osmosis.

• diffusion.

• active transport.

The amount of water being reabsorbed in the collecting duct is controlled by

• blood vessels.

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  motor neurons.

• hormones.

Which type of dialysis requires the use of a dialysis machine?

• hemodialysis

• hemodialysis