This document summarizes key points from a chapter on thermoregulation and osmoregulation. It discusses how animals regulate their internal temperature and water balance through various physiological adaptations and mechanisms. Specifically, it covers how endothermic and ectothermic animals gain and lose heat, the categories of adaptations that help thermoregulation, and the challenges of osmoregulation for freshwater fish, saltwater fish and terrestrial animals. It also briefly outlines the processes of filtration, reabsorption, secretion and excretion involved in urine production by the kidneys.
12. Osmotic water gain through gills
and other parts of body surface
Uptake of
some ions
in food
Uptake of
salt by
gills
Excretion of
large amounts of
water in dilute
urine from kidneys
Osmoregulation in a perch, a freshwater fish
14. Osmotic water loss
through gills and other
parts of body surface
Gain of water and
salt from food
and by drinking
seawater
Excretion of
Salt from gills
Excretion of excess
ions and small
amounts of water
in scanty urine
from kidneys
Osmoregulation in a cod, a saltwater fish
16. Proteins Amino acids Nitrogenous bases
Nucleic acids
—NH2
Amino groups
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Nitrogen-containing
metabolic
waste
products
Birds and many other
reptiles, insects, land
snails
Uric acid
Mammals, amphibians,
sharks, some bony
fishes
Most aquatic animals,
including most fishes
Ammonia Urea
20. Aorta
Inferior
vena cava
Anatomy of the human excretory system
Renal artery and vein
Kidney
Urinary bladder
Ureter
Urethra
21. Renal cortex
Renal medulla
Renal pelvis
Ureter
Anatomy of the human excretory system (L.Sec. Kidney)
22. Renal cortex
Bowman’s
Capsule
Collecting
Duct
Renal artery
Renal vein
Tubule
To
renal
Pelvis
Renal medulla
Anatomy of the human excretory system C.Sec. Kidney
23. Bowman’s
capsule
Arteriole
from renal
artery
Arteriole
from
glomerulus
Glomerulus
Proximal tubule
Distal
Tubule
Branch of
renal vein
Capillaries
From
another
3
1
Nephron
Loop of Henle
with capillary
network
Collecting
2 Duct
Anatomy of the human excretory system (Diagram of a Nephron)
25. Filtration
Nephron tubule
H2O, other small molecules
Reabsorption Secretion
Excretion
Urine
Capillary
Interstitial fluid
Major processes of the urinary system
28. Line from artery
to apparatus
Pump Tubing made of a
selectively permeable
membrane
Dialyzing
Line from solution
apparatus
to vein
Fresh dialyzing
solution
Used dialyzing
solution
(with urea and
Kidney dialysis. excess ions)
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