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Take MCQ Biology Test1.
What is kidney transplantation?
2.
Why is the urine yellow in colour?
3.
What are aquaporins?
4.
Name the processes involved in urine formation.
5.
What is ornithine cycle
6.
Why do reptiles produce very little hypotonic urine?
7.
Why are aquatic animals mostly ammonotelic in nature?
8.
Name any four nitrogenous waste products produced by animals.
9.
Explain the heart’s role in secreting a hormone that regulates renal function? What hormone is this?
10.
What is the effect of aldosterone on kidneys and where is it produced?
11.
Name the three main hormones that are involved in the regulation of the renal function?
12.
Which vessels drain filtered blood from the kidneys?
13.
What vessels carry blood to the kidneys? Is this blood arterial or venous?
14.
Differentiate cortical from medullary nephrons
15.
1.
It is the ultimate method for correction of a acute renal failures. This involves transfer of healthy kidney from one person (donor) to another person with kidney failure.
2.
The yellow colour of the urine is due to the presence of a pigment urochrome
3.
Aquaporins are water-permeable channels III membrane of Nephron (membrane transport proteins) that allow water to move across the epithelial cells in relation to the osmotic difference from the lumen to the interstitial fluid
4.
Urine formation involves three main processes namely, glomerular filtration, tubular reabsorption and tubular secretion.
5.
The nitrogenous waste formed as a result of breakdown of amino acid is converted to, urea in the liver by the ornithine or urea cycle
6.
Reptiles have reduced glomerulus or lack glomerulus and Henle's loop. Hence they produce very little hypotonic urine.
7.
The Ammonotelic animals produce ammonia as nitrogenous waste product during excretion. Ammonia dissolves in water easily and hence this type of excretion is common in aquatic animals
8.
(a) Urea
(b) Uric acid
(c) Ammonia
(d) Creatinine
9.
Excessive stretch of cardiac atrial cells cause an increase in blood flow to the auricles of the heart and release ANF (Atrial natriuretic peptide or factor) which stimulates the increase Na+ excretion. Chemoreceptors like carotid bodies formed in the heart.
10.
Aldosterone maintains renal blood flow to the kidneys. It is produced as medullary adrenal hormone in the adrenal gland of kidney.
11.
Renin, aldosterone and ADH.
12.
Venules, veins of renal vein comes out of hilum of kidneys.
13.
Renal artery supplies (arterial) oxygenated blood and renal vein carries out deoxygenated blood (venous) from kidneys.
14.
| Cortical nephrons | Medullary nephrons |
| Bowman's capsule malpighian capsule is present. | Tubular part of nephrons is present. |
| Glomerular filtration occurs. | Absorption, re-absorption and secretion occurs. |
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