Osmotic Regulation
The structure that controls water movement into and out of a cell
What is the plasma membrane?
The bundle of capillaries inside the nephron where blood filtration occurs.
What is the glomerulus?
The physical barrier that prevents most pathogens from entering the body.
What is the skin?
The two main types of adaptive immune responses.
What are humoral immunity and cell-mediated immunity?
This yellow cartoon family lives in the town of Springfield.
Who are The Simpsons?
Animals that maintain a constant internal osmolarity regardless of environment.
What are osmoregulators?
The cup-shaped structure that surrounds the glomerulus and collects filtrate.
What is Bowman’s capsule?
The enzyme found in tears and saliva that breaks down bacterial cell walls.
What is lysozyme?
The immune cells responsible for destroying infected host cells.
What are cytotoxic T cells?
This sitcom follows six friends living in New York City and spending lots of time at Central Perk.
What is Friends?
Animals whose internal osmolarity matches their environment.
What are osmoconformers?
The process where useful substances such as glucose and amino acids are returned to the blood.
What is reabsorption?
White blood cells that engulf and digest pathogens through phagocytosis.
What are phagocytes?
The cells responsible for producing antibodies.
What are B cells?
The genius but socially awkward physicist in The Big Bang Theory.
Who is Sheldon Cooper?
Freshwater fish compensate for osmotic water gain by producing this type of urine.
What is large volumes of dilute urine?
The final structure that collects urine from multiple nephrons before it flows to the renal pelvis.
What is the collecting duct?
These immune cells destroy virus-infected or cancerous cells without prior exposure.
What are natural killer (NK) cells?
The specific region on an antigen where an antibody binds.
What is an epitope?
The main character of Breaking Bad, also known as “Heisenberg.”
Who is Walter White?
Sharks maintain osmotic balance by retaining high concentrations of this nitrogen-containing compound.
What is urea?
This part of the loop of Henle is permeable to water but not to salts.
What is the descending limb?
The chemical released by mast cells that causes blood vessels to dilate.
What is histamine?
The proteins released by helper T cells that stimulate other immune cells.
What are cytokines?
This popular fantasy series follows the Targaryen family before the events of Game of Thrones.
What is House of Dragon?