Waste Management
These waste products are formed from cellular respiration.
What is carbon dioxide and water?
This carcinogen can also be excreted via the lungs.
What is alcohol?
This process, which we learned about in unit 1, begins the breakdown and recycling of old red blood cells.
What is phagocytosis?
These glands sit above each kidney and produce several hormones.
What are adrenal glands?
This is the normal colour of urine.
What is yellow?
These three organs help with osmoregulation.
What are the kidneys, skin, and lungs?
The process by which heat is generated by shivering.
What is thermogenesis?
This common fruit can interfere with the liver's ability to break down certain medications.
What is grapefruit?
These tubes carry urine from the kidneys to the bladder.
What are ureters?
If your urine looks like this, you could be dehydrated.
What is dark yellow or amber?
Deamination of amino acids by the liver forms this toxic nitrogenous waste.
What is ammonia?
This area of the brain acts as a 'thermostat' to regulate body temperature.
What is the hypothalamus?
This substance, along with ethanol, are both broken down by the liver using the same enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase.
What is retinol?
This tube connects the bladder to the outside world.
What is the urethra?
If you see this colour in urine, it could indicate a serious health problem or that you recently ate beets.
What is red?
This process forms nitrogenous wastes by breaking down proteins.
What is catabolism?
When the body is too cold, this process which involves the skin slows down or stops.
What is sweating?
Heme is further broken down into this substance which the liver uses to form bile.
What is bilirubin?
The kidneys filter out these same three waste products which your skin also excretes.
What is water, salts, and urea?
If this substance is found in urine, it could indicate diabetes.
What is glucose?
Urea is formed by combining these two substances.
What is ammonia and carbon dioxide?
When the body needs to conserve water, these two organs help with osmoregulation.
What are the skin and kidneys?
These special cells in the liver break down erythrocytes and recycle the components.
What are Kupffer cells?
This is the functional unit of the kidney which we will learn about soon!
What is the nephron?
If this substance is found in urine, it could indicate a problem with filtration.
What is protein?