Osmoregulation and Excretion in Animals
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What role does Angiotensin II play in the body's regulation of blood pressure?

  • It reduces hormonal signaling from the pituitary gland.
  • It promotes the excretion of water to lower blood pressure.
  • It decreases blood volume and increases blood flow to the kidneys.
  • It raises blood pressure and stimulates aldosterone release. (correct)

How does the increased permeability in the distal tubule affect water reabsorption?

  • It facilitates the movement of water back into the bloodstream. (correct)
  • It enhances the exocytosis of storage vesicles.
  • It decreases the number of aquaporin channels available.
  • It leads to a reduction in blood osmolarity.

What is the primary stimulus for aldosterone release?

  • Lowering of blood pressure beyond normal levels.
  • An increase in blood osmolarity and pressure. (correct)
  • Decreased osmolarity in the bloodstream.
  • Inhibition of renin production by the kidneys.

Exocytosis in the context of the distal tubule primarily involves which process?

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What effect does H2O reabsorption have on blood pressure and overall fluid balance?

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How do marine bony fishes primarily compensate for water loss?

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What is the primary way that freshwater bony fishes manage the influx of water?

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What adaptation allows some aquatic invertebrates in temporary ponds to survive water loss?

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What is the primary nitrogenous waste product excreted directly by many aquatic animals due to its high solubility?

<p>Ammonia (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Marine bony fishes are considered _______ compared to seawater.

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Which of the following statements about salt regulation in marine bony fishes is accurate?

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Which nitrogenous waste product do terrestrial animals primarily convert ammonia into for excretion?

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What process do freshwater bony fishes undergo to prevent excessive water intake?

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What is a significant advantage of excreting uric acid for certain terrestrial animals?

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What factor contributes to marine vertebrates losing salts by diffusion?

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Which group of animals is primarily known to excrete urea?

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Which nitrogenous waste product is characterized as not soluble in water?

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How do freshwater animals primarily gain water from their environment?

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Which of the following animals is likely to excrete ammonia directly?

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What characteristic does urea have compared to ammonia?

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Which option highlights a common trade-off involved in the production of uric acid compared to urea?

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What is the primary function of osmoregulation in animals?

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How do freshwater animals primarily adapt to their environment?

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Which of the following statements about desert and marine animals is true?

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What role does excretion play in animal physiology?

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What unique ability do albatrosses have in relation to drinking saltwater?

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Which organ is primarily responsible for urine production in humans?

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What is a significant consequence of not maintaining proper osmoregulation?

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In what way do terrestrial animals optimize their water use?

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What distinguishes juxtamedullary nephrons from cortical nephrons?

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Which statement accurately describes the function of the loop of Henle?

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What is the primary mechanism driving the reabsorption of water in the nephron?

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What role does the distal tubule play in kidney function?

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Which capillaries are associated with the loop of Henle?

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What characterizes the filtrate as it moves through the ascending limb of the loop of Henle?

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What type of pressure facilitates the filtration process in the glomerulus?

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What generally occurs in the proximal tubule of a nephron?

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What adaptation allows desert animals to conserve water effectively?

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What role do transport epithelia play in an animal's physiology?

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How do marine birds primarily excrete excess sodium chloride from their bodies?

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What is the primary impact of an animal's nitrogenous waste on its physiology?

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Which statement accurately describes transport epithelia?

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What method allows seabirds to maintain osmotic balance despite high salt intake?

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Which of the following groups of animals is least likely to possess salt glands for excreting excess salt?

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Which process is described by animals using energy to maintain osmotic gradients?

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Which characteristic of nitrogenous wastes can vary based on an animal's environment?

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In the context of osmoregulation, what is the significance of tubular networks made by transport epithelia?

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Flashcards

Osmoregulation

The process of maintaining the proper balance of water and solutes in the body.

Freshwater Animals

Animals that live in freshwater environments have adaptations that reduce water uptake and conserve solutes.

Marine Bony Fish

Marine bony fish have adaptations for conserving water and eliminating excess salt.

Freshwater Bony Fish

Freshwater bony fish need to conserve solutes and prevent water loss from their bodies.

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Desert Animals

Animals that live in a dry environment, like deserts, have adaptations for conserving water.

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Excretion

The process of removing metabolic waste products from the body.

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Osmoregulatory System

The system responsible for maintaining water and solute balance and removing metabolic waste.

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Nitrogenous Waste Products

Nitrogenous waste products are the result of protein metabolism and are removed from the body through excretion.

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Marine Animals & Osmoregulation

Marine animals have to deal with the constant influx of salt water, which is hypertonic to their body fluids. They actively remove excess salt and retain water to maintain their internal balance.

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Freshwater Animals & Osmoregulation

Freshwater animals, on the other hand, are hypertonic to their environment, meaning they constantly absorb water. They actively expel excess water and conserve solutes to maintain their internal balance.

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Marine Bony Fish Osmoregulation

Marine bony fishes have body fluids that are less concentrated with solutes (hypotonic) compared to seawater. They lose water and passively gain salt through their gills.

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How Marine Bony Fish Conserve Water

Marine bony fish compensate for water loss by drinking seawater and actively excreting the excess salt through their gills.

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Freshwater Bony Fish Osmoregulation

Freshwater bony fishes have body fluids that are more concentrated with solutes (hypertonic) compared to freshwater. They gain water passively through their gills.

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How Freshwater Bony Fish Excrete Excess Water

Freshwater bony fishes eliminate excess water by producing large amounts of dilute urine.

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Anhydrobiosis

Some aquatic invertebrates in temporary ponds can lose almost all their body water and survive in a dormant state called anhydrobiosis.

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Transport Epithelia

Specialized epithelial cells that regulate the movement of solutes across cell membranes. They are crucial for maintaining osmotic balance and removing metabolic waste.

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Salt Glands

These glands in marine birds are specifically designed to remove excess salt from the blood. This prevents dehydration in environments with high salt concentrations.

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Salt-excreting Nasal Glands

A mechanism used by seabirds to eliminate excess salt from their bodies. It involves a specialized network of capillaries and tubules that concentrate and expel salt from their blood.

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Urea

The main nitrogenous waste product in many animals. It is produced from the breakdown of amino acids and excreted as urine.

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Uric Acid

This waste product, produced by birds and reptiles, is made from the metabolism of protein and requires less water for excretion.

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Ammonia

A breakdown product of amino acid metabolism that is toxic to animals and must be excreted efficiently.

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Ammonia excretion in aquatic animals

Animals in water can excrete ammonia directly because of its high solubility in water.

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Ammonia conversion in terrestrial animals

Terrestrial animals need to convert ammonia to less toxic compounds like urea or uric acid because of ammonia's toxicity on land.

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Urea excretion

Urea is a less toxic form of nitrogenous waste that requires less water to excrete than ammonia.

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Uric acid excretion

Uric acid is a very concentrated form of nitrogenous waste, requiring the least water for excretion.

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Animals that excrete urea

Urea excretion is common in mammals, most amphibians, sharks, and some bony fishes.

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Animals that excrete uric acid

Uric acid excretion is common in reptiles, birds, and insects, allowing them to thrive in drier environments.

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Energy cost of uric acid excretion

Uric acid requires more energy to produce than urea, but saves more water.

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Second Messenger

A signaling molecule that triggers a cascade of intracellular events, ultimately leading to a physiological response.

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Signaling Molecule

A molecule that binds to a specific receptor on a cell, initiating a signal transduction pathway.

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Increased Permeability

The process by which a cell increases its permeability to water, allowing for increased water uptake.

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Aquaporin

A type of water channel protein that facilitates the movement of water across cell membranes.

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Aldosterone

A hormone released by the adrenal glands that plays a key role in regulating blood pressure and volume.

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What is filtration in the nephron?

Filtration is the process where blood pressure forces fluid from the capillaries of the glomerulus into Bowman's capsule.

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What does the filtrate contain?

The filtrate contains small molecules like salts, glucose, amino acids, vitamins, and waste products like nitrogenous wastes.

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What are the roles of the afferent and efferent arterioles?

The afferent arteriole delivers blood to the glomerulus, and the efferent arteriole carries blood away from the glomerulus.

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What are peritubular capillaries and what do they do?

The peritubular capillaries surround the tubules of the nephron, facilitating reabsorption and secretion processes.

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What are vasa recta and where are they located?

The vasa recta are capillaries associated with the loop of Henle, playing a role in maintaining the concentration gradient in the medulla.

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What happens during reabsorption in the proximal tubule?

Reabsorption in the proximal tubule involves the return of essential substances like water, glucose, and ions back into the blood.

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What happens in the descending limb of the loop of Henle?

The descending limb of the loop of Henle is permeable to water, allowing water to move out into the hyperosmotic medulla.

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What happens in the ascending limb of the loop of Henle?

The ascending limb of the loop of Henle is permeable to salt, but not water, allowing salt to move out and contributing to the dilution of filtrate.

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Study Notes

Animal and Human Osmoregulation and Excretion

  • Animals maintain internal fluid balance (osmoregulation)
  • Osmolarity: solute concentration in a solution
  • Isoosmotic: solutions with equal osmolarity
  • Hyperosmotic: higher solute concentration
  • Hypoosmotic: lower solute concentration
  • Water moves from hypoosmotic to hyperosmotic
  • Osmoregulation is controlled solute movement between internal fluids and external environments
  • Osmoconformers: marine animals that are isoosmotic with their surroundings.
  • Osmoregulators: expend energy controlling water uptake and loss in hypo/hyperosmotic environments
  • Stenohaline: animals that cannot tolerate large changes in external osmolarity
  • Euryhaline: animals that can tolerate large changes in external osmolarity
  • Aquatic animals (bony fishes)
    • Freshwater bony fish: hypotonic to water, passively gain water, must constanly drink water, excess salt actively transported to sea water.
    • Marine bony fish: hypertonic to water, passively lose water, must drink seawater, actively expels salt.
  • Terrestrial animals:
    • Lose water via respiration and excretion.
    • Some reduce excretion loss by excreting nitrogen as uric acid.
    • Some animals manage water budgets via drinking and eating moist foods and using metabolic water. Desert animals use more water saving techniques.

Animal Excretory Systems

  • Osmoregulation: balancing water and salt levels in the body
  • Excretion: osmoregulatory system that removes waste
  • Animal excretory systems: remove metabolic waste
  • High solubility of ammonia, allowing excretion to be directly by many aquatic animals.
  • Terrestrial animals convert ammonia to less toxic urea or uric acid.

Nitrogenous Waste Products

  • Nitrogenous wastes: proteins, nucleic acids, and amino acids.
  • Most aquatic animals excrete ammonia
  • Mammals, sharks, amphibians: excrete urea.
  • Reptiles, birds, and insects: excrete uric acid, requiring less water.

Organs of Excretion in Invertebrates

  • Most animals have tubular excretory organs
  • Regulate water-salt balance
  • Excrete metabolic wastes into the environment

Survey of Excretory Systems

  • Systems that perform basic excretory functions vary in different animal groups
  • Protonephridia: a network of dead-end tubules (flame cells) in planarians.
  • Metanephridia: open-ended tubules in earthworms filtering coelomic fluid
  • Malpighian tubules: in insects, removing nitrogenous waste matter, used for osmoregulation.
  • Nephrons: functional unit of vertebrate kidneys

The Human Urinary System

  • Kidneys: located on either side of the vertebral column
  • Ureters: conduct urine from kidneys to the urinary bladder
  • Urethra: tube that passes urine to the outside.
  • Kidneys (nephrons): the functional unit.

Urinary System in Humans

  • Regulate water and salt; blood
  • Kidneys are the principle site of water and salt balance.
  • Supplied with blood by renal artery, drained by renal vein

Nephrons

  • Functional unit of the kidney
  • Bowman's capsule: surrounds glomerulus, receives filtrate
  • Glomerulus: ball of capillaries
  • Collecting duct: receives filtrate from several nephrons

Urine Formation

  • Three distinct processes:
  • Glomerular filtration: in the glomerular capsule, nonselective, removing small molecules
  • Tubular reabsorption: reclaiming valuable solutes at the proximal convoluted tubule
  • Tubular secretion: adding toxins and other solutes at the distal tubule.

Homeostatic Regulation of the Kidney

  • ADH: increases water reabsorption
  • RAAS: affects blood pressure, decreases blood flow to the kidneys
  • ANP: opposes RAAS

Maintaining the Acid-Base Balance

  • Bicarbonate buffer system + breathing regulate blood pH.
  • Excretion/reabsorption of H+ ions and NH3; Bicarbonate ions (HCO3−) are adjusted.

Hormonal Circuits and the Kidney

  • Nervous and hormonal control of water and salt reabsorption.
  • Antidiuretic hormone (ADH): increases water reabsorption

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