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Excretory System38-3

+By the end of this lesson on excretion you should be able to:

1) Describe the organs that make up the excretory system

2) Explain how the kidneys work to maintain homeostasis in your body

3) Explain how the lungs and the skin participate in excretion

+Excretion:

Removes the wastes produced by our cells like excess nitrogenous wastes (urea), salts, and carbon dioxide

Urea – a toxic compound produced when amino acids are used for energy that is produced by the liver

Major excretion organs are the skin,liver, kidneys, and lungs

What waste does each organ release???

The Kidneys

The size of a clenched fist

Removes urea, excess water and other wastes from the blood in the renal artery

Transports wastes to the urinary bladder

+What does a kidney do?

•Kidneys filter the blood!!!

Parts of the Kidneys

Inner part – renal medulla

Outer part – renal cortex

Basic functional units – nephrons

1 million per kidneyFilters, reabsorbs and

secretesEmpties wastes into the

ureter, leading to the urinary bladder

Filtration

Occurs in the capillary network called the glomerulus that is surround by the Bowman’s capsule

Filters all the blood in the body every 45 minutes

Pressure pushes out the filtrate made of water, urea, glucose, salts and amino acids

+Reabsorption

Occurs in the renal tubules

Materials are actively transported from the filtrate back into the blood (to stay in the body) leaving the urine - the body’s waste product

What materials do you think should stay in the body and not leave in the filtrate as waste?

Where doe the blood go next?

+Secretion

Occurs in the renal tubules

Materials such as H+, K+, ammonia, and drugs are transferred from the blood to the filtrate

The filtrate travels into the collecting duct as urine. What does it contain?

The urine is stored in the bladder and then released through a tube called the urethra and removed from the body

+So how do the kidneys help to maintain homeostasis???

Regulate water content of the blood

Maintain blood pH

Removes wastes from the blood

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+SELF QUIZ:

1) What other systems work with the excretory system?

2) How is the liver involved in excretion?

3) Complete the worksheets