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The Excretory System Removes Wastes and Helps Maintain Homeostasis
The Excretory System Removes Wastes and Helps Maintain Homeostasis
The Excretory System Removes Wastes and Helps Maintain Homeostasis
4 Excretory System
KEY CONCEPT
The excretory system removes wastes and helps
maintain homeostasis.
32.4 Excretory System
32.4 Excretory System
The excretory system eliminates nonsolid wastes from
the body.
• Nonsolid wastes are
eliminated through lungs, skin
vein
ureter
(to bladder)
32.4 Excretory System
Nephrons clean the blood and produce urine.
• 4. Glomerulus-filters and cleans the blood
• 5. Bowman’s Capsule-holds the filtrate, molecules are
reabsorbed into the capillaries to balance the blood
chemically from body
• 6. Loop of Henle-
Water is reabsorbed.
7. Collecting ducts-
collect urine from to body
from body
to body
to body
from other
loop of Henle
nephrons
32.4 Excretory System
1 FILTRATION
Glomerulus Water,electrolytes,aminoacids,
glucose,urea, and other small
molecules diffuse out of the
blood,creating the filtrate.
Bowman’s capsule
32.4 Excretory System
2 REABSORPTION
from body
As the filtrate enters the rest of
the tubule ,most of the materials
are reabsorbed into the
blood.Materials not reabsorbed
make up the urine,which flows
into the loop of Henle.
collecting
duct 3 EXCRETION
to body In the loop of Henle,water can be
reabsorbed one final time to
from other reduce the volume of urine.The
nephrons remaining urine flows into a
loop of Henle collecting duct that leads to the
ureter.
32.4 Excretory System
Injury and disease can damage kidney functions.
• A kidney transplant can replaced damaged kidney.
– recipient and donor tissue must match
– drugs prevent tissue rejection