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Nasty nephrons
100
What exocrine glands have, endocrine glands don't
What is a duct
100
This gland has little bundles of cells, whose hormones about your sugar level tells (the brqin, that is)
What is the pancreas?
100
Most everyone knows this one controls where sugar goes
What is insulin
100
A pouch of smooth muscle, to store a watery yellow waste product (please be very specific)
What is the urinary bladder?
100
How many nephrons are found in a kidney?
What is about one million?
200
An organ in the respiratory system who acts as an excretory organ!
What are the lungs?
200
In a man this gland give him the ability to perform meiosis
What are testes?
200
This adjective is added to several of the pituitary's hormones, telling what they do to other endocrine glands
What is 'stimulate'?
200
these 2 organs contain the microscopic filters that keep our blood clean
What are teh kidneys?
200
The tubules in each kidney are surrounded by specificly these kind of blood vessels
What are capillaries
300
Contains all the ingredients of urine, but isn't.
What is sweat?
300
This "ski cap" ON the kidney may regulate water balance IN the kidney
What is the sdrenal gland?
300
Women make this hormone, cosequently they can make babies (with a little help from their husbands)
What is estrogen?
300
THe 2 types of tubes found within the urinary system
What are ureters and urethras?
300
what part of the circulatory system is located inside the Bowman's Capsule?
What is the Glomerulus?
400
What the eodocrine system is trying to give the brain about what is going on in the body
What is feedback
400
A maker of TSH, ACTH, LH and GH, among others
What is the pituitary, or "master" gland
400
Made from a gland inside of the thyroid, this stuff regulates some vital mineral levels in the blood
What is parathyroid hormone
400
Pure urine first appears in these structures, begining at the end of the tubules in each nephron
What are collecting ducts?
400
This liquid found in the nephron has BOTH good and bad stuff in it
What is 'filtrate'?
500
A part of your brain that plugs it into the endocrine system
What is the hypothalmus?
500
This gland is a poor excuse for not having enough energy to do your homework; still its responsible for how energetic you may feel.
What is the thyroid?
500
This hormone isn't made by bees. Its not made by grass or trees! Its made to fight or run away, or be the best when you're at play!
What is adrenaline?
500
This body fluid contains all the ingredients of urine, but isn't. (Cool[ing] question...)
What is sweat
500
The part of the nephron that reabsorbs the good stuff, leaving urine alone entering the collecting ducts
What is the Loop of Henle