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What is homeostasis?

What are some of the components that make up filtrate?

glucose, water, H+ ions, bicarbonate ions, medications, vitamins, amino acids, salts, and urea

Blood is filtered by the ________ producing ______, which contains ________ products that need to be excreted

kidney | urine | waste

What are the ureters?

True or false: after passing through the nephron and being processed will move through the tubes of the nephron all of the filtrate will be expelled through urine

False, some of it will be reabsorbed (pass through the barrier, end up in the interstitial fluid and then circulate through the body)

How is urine expelled?

It is stored in the bladder before it is expelled from the body through the urethra

True or False: one of the functions of the excretory system is to mantain homeostasis

True

What is the name of the fluid after it is processed in the Bowman's capsule?

It becomes filtrate

True or False: one of the functions of the excretory system is to change the amount of fluid and salts in the body

False

What is the Glomerulus?

A specialised mass of capillares

What are nephrons? What is thier function?

True or False: one of the functions of the excretory system is to remove waste and toxins from the body

True