The excretory system, which includes the kidneys, the ureters, the bladder, and the urethra, is also known as ___

Maintaining the right levels of water and dissolved substances in your body is called ___

A main byproduct of metabolizing food is ammonia, which is pretty toxic, and comes from breaking down ___

Mammals, amphibians and some marine animals convert ammonia into ___

What is the main component of the white paste in bird droppings?

On an average day your kidneys filter out about 180 liters of fluid from your blood. How much gets peed out?

Most of you excretory system isn't dedicated to excreting, its dedicated to ___

Each one of your mango sized kidneys has about a million tiny filtering structures called ___

If you were to unravel all of your nephrons and put them end to end, how far would they stretch?

Whenever you hear the word renal, it means we're dealing with ___

The starting point for a single nephron is a tiny tangle of porous capillaries called ___

What's the name of the cup-like sack at the beginning of the tubular component of a nephron?

The stuff that gets squeezed out of the glomerulus and into Bowman's capsule is no longer blood, it is now called ___

Filtrate flows into a twisted tube called the proximal convoluted tubule, which means the tube ___

In a nephron, what is the long, hairpin shaped tubule that passes through the two main layers of the kidney called?

The cortex, or outer part of the kidney, is Latin for ___

The "marrow" or "pith" of the kidney is referenced using which latin word?

Friedrich Henle was an early adopter of which wildly unpopular theory?

Friedrich Henle is considered to be one of the founders of microbiology, along with his student ___

The Crypts of Henle are microscopic pockets in the ___

The medulla is super salty relative to the filtrate, so it's said to be ___

As the filtrate starts going down the Loop of Henle, the membrane is ___

As the filtrate ascends the Loop of Henle, the membrane is ___

When urine leaves the kidneys it flows down to the urinary bladder by tubes called ___

Which tube drains urine from the bladder out of the body?

Kangaroo rats and other desert rodents produce concentrated urine because their Loop of Henle is ___