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BIOLOGY
Topic 12
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Topic Outline
Excretion
The Human Kidney
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Topic 12.1 Excretion
12.1.1 Outline the need for excretion in all living organisms.
Excretion removes metabolic waste from the body. In animals, nitrogenous waste is
excreted from a specialized network of organs created to store and excrete
wastes. It needs to be excreted because it is toxic.
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When wastes accumulate, they tend to damage cells and metabolic processes, largely by changing the pH balance in their
surrounding environment. Excretion prevents accumulation of wastes.
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In plants, oxygen is excreted when released from photosynthesis. The excretion of wastes
also serves to free up space needed for products used in metabolism.
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12.1.2 State that excretory products in plants include oxygen, and in animals
they include carbon dioxide and nitrogenous compounds.
The excretory products in plants include oxygen, and in animals
they include carbon dioxide and nitrogenous compounds.
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12.1.3 Discuss the relationship between the different nitrogenous waste
products and habitat in mammals, birds and freshwater fish.
Surplus amino acids must be degraded to relatively harmless nitrogen-containing compounds.
Freshwater fish can get rid of ammonia, although highly toxic (due to its
basicity), because it can be diluted by the readily available water.
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Birds are unable to carry too much water so they excrete uric acid which is insoluble and expelled as a paste
(most of the water is removed before excretion).
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Mammals excrete urea, which contains some nitrogenous wastes but is largely
water and not very toxic. Some desert mammals produce very
concentrated urine (having a long loop of Henle in their kidneys to filter out the
majority of water and fluids
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Topic 12.2 The Human Kidney
12.2.1 Draw the structure of the kidney.
Drawing will be inserted at a later date.
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12.2.2 Draw the structure of a glomerulus and associated nephron.
Drawing will be inserted at a later date.
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12.2.3 Explain the process of ultrafiltration including blood pressure, fenestrated
blood capillaries and basement membrane.
The renal artery branches inside the kidney and a branch enters each Bowman's capsule. This branch is called the afferent renal arteriole. The arteriole branches into a branch of capillaries called glomerulus
inside each Bowman's capsule.
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The capillaries merge again into one blood vessel that leaves the Bowman
capsule called the efferent renal artery. The blood pressure in the gloerulus
is very high due to the fact that these capillaries are present between two arteries and not between an artery and a vein as is the case with other parts of circulation. Due to this high
blood pressure in the capillaries, fluid is squeezed out.
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However only the substances that have sizes that enable them to pass out of the capillary wall are squeezed out.
This is called filtration ( or ultrafiltration).
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12.2.4 Define osmoregulation.
Osmoregulation is the control of the water balance of the blood,
tissue or cytoplasm of a living organism.
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12.2.5 Explain the reabsorption of glucose, water and salts in the
proximal convoluted tubule, including the roles of microvilli,
osmosis and active transport.
Reabsorption in the kidneys is, under most conditions, very efficient, able to reabsorb
the vast majority of water and salts from the fluid. The inside of the proximal tubule is
lined with countless microvili, essentially the same in structure to those found in the
small intestine but scaled down significantly in size.
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These microvili are the surface through which substances enter and exit the filtrate, or the fluid inside the proximal tubule. Some substances in the filtrate, such as the buffer molecule HCO3
(bicarbonate) and postassium, diffuse out of the filtrate passively. However, other substances,
including amino acids and glucose, must be actively transported into the microvil and
eventually back into the blood stream.
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The proximal tubule also functions in the reabsorption of salt molecules, which passively move out of the tubule and into the surrounding microvili. Due to
the gradient now forms by the diffusion of salt, water follows the salt out of the tubule by osmosis, thus reclaiming the
majority of water in the process.
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The proximal tubule also functions in expelling poisons or wastes collected from the liver by secreting them into
the filtrate, where they will later be excreted.
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12.2.6 Explain the roles of the loop of Henle, medulla, collecting duct and
ADH in maintaining the water balance of the blood.
The descending loop of henle reabsorbs water by osmosis. At the bottom of
the loop of henle, the loop enters the medulla section.
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When in the medulla, salts begin to diffuse, and continue to diffuse in the ascending
loop of henle, and in the upper section of the loop of henle the salts are pushed
out by active transport. In the collecting duct, reabsorption of water, glucose and salts occurs depending on the hormone ADH. The more there is in the collecting duct,
the more permeable the collecting duct is to water.
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12.2.7 Compare the composition of blood in the renal artery and renal vein, and compare the composition of glomerular
filtrate and urine.
The renal artery enters the kidney with urea and other unwanted material and carries oxygen to the kidney.
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The renal vein leaves the kidney with blood that contains correct levels of urea, salt, and water. It is also rich in CO2. The glomeruler filtrate contains salts, glucose, and vitamins, urea, and other small molecules. Urine contains ammonia and carbon dioxide, as well as water
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12.2.8 Outline the structure and action of kidney dialysis machines.
This machine works on the basis of osmosis and diffusion. It is multiple layers of sheets of a cellophane material that allows small
molecules to pass through.
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The blood passes between the sheets of the dialysis machine and as it does that,
movement of the ions according to concentration gradient will start taking
place. A patient with kidney failure must be connected to a dialysis machine in a
hospital 2 days a week for about 12 hours each time.
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