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What 4 ways do the kidneys maintain the body's internal environment? - Answer - regulating total water and electrolyte - ensuring long-term acid-base balance - excreting metabolic wastes, toxins, drugs - producing erythropoietin and renin -- activating vitamin D Kidneys are part of which system? - Answer urinary system What do the ureters do? - Answer transport urine from kidneys to urinary bladder what is the function of the urinary bladder? - Answer temporary storage reservoir for urine what does the urethra do? - Answer transports urine out of the body What are the three distinct regions of the internal kidney? - Answer Renal Cortex Renal medulla Renal pelvis What are minor calyces? - Answer Cup-shaped areas that collect urine draining from pyramidal papillae What are major calyces? - Answer Area that collects urine from the minor calyces Starting in the renal pyramid, what is the pathway of urine flow? - Answer Renal pyramid, minor calyx, major calyx, renal pelvis, ureter Which part of the kidney is referred to as the "tubular component" ? - Answer nephron

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BLG 111 -Chapter 25: Urinary System
Questions and Answers.
What 4 ways do the kidneys maintain the body's internal environment? - Answer - regulating
total water and electrolyte

- ensuring long-term acid-base balance

- excreting metabolic wastes, toxins, drugs

- producing erythropoietin and renin --> activating vitamin D



Kidneys are part of which system? - Answer urinary system



What do the ureters do? - Answer transport urine from kidneys to urinary bladder



what is the function of the urinary bladder? - Answer temporary storage reservoir for urine



what does the urethra do? - Answer transports urine out of the body



What are the three distinct regions of the internal kidney? - Answer Renal Cortex

Renal medulla

Renal pelvis



What are minor calyces? - Answer Cup-shaped areas that collect urine draining from
pyramidal papillae



What are major calyces? - Answer Area that collects urine from the minor calyces



Starting in the renal pyramid, what is the pathway of urine flow? - Answer Renal pyramid,
minor calyx, major calyx, renal pelvis, ureter



Which part of the kidney is referred to as the "tubular component" ? - Answer nephron

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