What do you mean by osmoregulation?

Q: Are marine birds osmoconformers or osmoregulators? O osmoconformers O osmoregulators UESTION 4 Are…

A: Ans 3. Osmoregulation is the regulation of water and ion concentrations in the body.

Q: What can happen if kidneys fail? Are there treatments for that?

A: Answer

Q: What do you mean by nephritis?

A: The kidneys are bean-shaped organs located on both left and right sides in the retroperitoneal space…

Q: How are the processes of reabsorption and secretion related? A) Materials move in opposite…

A: All animals deposit uric acid, urea, carbon dioxide, ammonia, water, and some ions also through…

Q: If a person eats 12 milligrams (mg) of salt in a day and excretes 11 mg of it in the urine, what…

A: Excretion can be defined as the removal of waste material or substances from the body generally by…

Q: Observe the network of capillaries, known as the vasa recta, that surrounds the nephron. What is the…

A: Vasa recta are the series of blood vessels in the blood supply of the kidney that enter the renal…

Q: What do you mean by micturation?

A: Urinary system eliminates the waste in the body through urine formation. Urine contains undesired…

Q: A shark’s blood is isotonic to the surrounding seawater because of the reabsorption of ____ in its…

A: Tonicity is the relative concentration of solutes in a solvent. A solution is said to be isotonic…

Q: If blood pressure drops in a patient in shock as a resultof a severe injury, how would you expect…

A: The blood pressure in the human body is considered the force exerted by the blood on the wall of the…

Q: Kidneys control blood pH by excretinga. HCO3b. H+. c. NH3.. d. CO2.

A: Answer- Kidneys are the main organs that control the homeostasis by maintaining the osmolarity in…

Q: One of your patients is diagnosed with nephrotic syndrome in which too much protein is released in…

A: Nephrotic syndrome is a renal disorder marked by an elevation in the level of protein secreted and…

Q: High excretion of sodium through the kidneys can cause? a. Low plasma osmolanity, low urine…

A: There is continuous monitoring of the blood sodium levels and blood volume. When either becomes…

Q: Which of these is not a function of the kidneys? A) The kidneys regulate the plasma volume B) The…

A: The renal system has two bean-shaped structures, which are called “kidneys”. In vertebrates, they…

Q: What do you mean by tubular secretion?

A: Excretory system is a passive biological system. It removes excess, unnecessary materials from the…

Q: What does "reabsorption" mean? to move from the nephron back to the blood to move from the blood to…

A: Re-absorption is a process in which water and solutes are moved from the tubules (of nephrons) back…

Q: What happens to glomeruli as a person ages?

A: Like the other organs, kidneys are also susceptible to age-related changes. Restricting the blood…

Q: Person suffering from very low blood pressure pass no urine why? What suggestion would you offer for…

A: Blood pressure is defined as the pressure of the circulating blood exerted on the walls of the…

Q: 3. A person is taking a drug that inhibits the tubular secretion of H+. What effect does this drug…

A: Tubular secretion It is a process of filtering blood to generate liquid waste in the form of urine.…

Q: what happens if one part of the nephron cannot function.

A: Nephrons are the structural and functional units of kidneys . They helps in filtering blood and…

Q: What do you mean by excreation?

A: Excreation simply refers to the act of spitting out.

Q: What do you mean by nephrons?

A: Nephrons are the essential  structural and functional unit of kidney which is employed to filter the…

Q: The return of filtered molecules from the nephron packet to the blood is called    a. Excretion…

A: The glomerulus is the filter system of the nephron and it filters the blood and reabsorbed…

Q: There are two types of nephrons. Name them?

A: The kidneys are made up of small units called nephrons which serve both structurally and…

Q: What do you mean by urinary bladder?

A: The urinary system consists of ureters, urinary bladder, and urethra. This system is important to…

Q: Suppose the kidneys of a person are damaged, can you predict what is going to happen to him?

A: The kidneys are a part of the urinary system. The kidney is enclosed by perirenal fat, renal fascia,…

Q: What is the role of the invertebrate/vertebrate gill in osmoregulation

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Q: What do you mean by artificial kidney?

A: Answer: Introduction: Kidneys are paired vital organs located behind the abdominal cavity and it…

Q: What do you mean by nephrocytes?

A: Excretory system in Arthropoda is well developed.  It is made up of either green gland or malphigian…

Q: Where in the kidneys is the blood filtered? O in the collecting duct O in the tubule in the…

A: Answer- in the glomerulus

Q: The time you woke up in the morning, you drink 2 glasses of water. Shortly after drinking you feel…

A: Urine  Urine is a waste product of organisms like human. It is form by kidney and stored in bladder.…

Q: What do you mean by selective reabsorption?

A: Urine refers to the liquid byproduct produced as the result of metabolism in humans and many…

Q: A condition in which the body's water content has fallen to a low level is called * O diuretic…

A: Water is the essential substance for the living organism. It provides the environment for all…

Q: What does the excreatory system in human beings includes?

A: The metabolism of various substances results in the synthesis of excretory products. These products…

Q: The nephron reabsorbs glucose through a sodium / glucose transporter. What sort of transporter is…

A: Membrane transport means the transportation of molecules through the plasma membrane or it is also…

Q: What do you mean by dialysis?

A: Kidneys are two bean-shaped organs located in the left and right side of the abdomen of vertebrates.…

Q: define the term osmoregulation and why would it be important for living things to be able to…

A: Living organisms  Living organisms are organism that have ability to grow, reproduce, move from…

Q: Urine is produced by the juxtaglomerular apparatus O urinary bladder O kidney O ureter

A: Urine formation is essential for the elimination of waste products from the body. The whole process…

Q: 2. Uric acid is MAINLY eliminated from the body through what mechanism? a. Urination b. Defecation…

A: Uric acid is the chemical compound having carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen formed by the body…

Q: A patient has diabetes insipidus. Which signs and symptoms would you expect this patient to have? 1)…

A: 18. The condition known as DI has been linked to a malfunction in the hormone vasopressin (AVP),…

Q: What is hypovolemia? Oa. A condition characterized by a decrease in blood volume Ob. The motivation…

A: Introduction :  High osmolarity : The concentration of particles is higher because there is less…

Q: osmoregulation and Its Function in our Body

A: Osmoregulation is the procedure of maintaining salt and body fluids balance (osmotic balance) across…

Q: What is Excretion?  How is Excretion is interrelated to our body?  Please briefly explain at your…

A: The elimination of endogenous waste products and absorbed exogenous materials (e.g., chemicals) from…

Q: Which takes blood from the heart to the kidney O renal artery O kidney O bladder O renal vein

A: The heart is the pumping organ. Whereas kidney is an excretory organ.

Q: how will osmoregulation help our body in maintaining homeostasis?

A: Homeostasis is a phenomenon of regulation of inside environment of the body . This allows body to…

Q: What do you mean by urothelium?

A: Epithelium is one four basic type of animal tissue. This layer forms the covering all over the body…

Q: what happens if there's protein in urine?

A: Proteins are one of the most important biomolecules in the body which is normally present in the…

Q: The kidneys help control the amount of

A: The excretory system consists of the kidneys, urinary bladder, ureters and urethra. The urine is…

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The collaboration between the cells and proteins that work together as a defense system against infection comprises the immune system.Each of them performs a variety of tasks to recognize and/or react against a foreign body.