Today in 2nd period biology we discussed the Kidney. Some of the notes for today are the following...
The kidney
- Removes metabolic waste and helps to maintain homeostasis (i.e. keeps salt and water levels in balance)
- Three major steps the kidneys preform are...
- Filtering blood
- Reabsorbing nutrients
- Collection and excretion
- The nephron
-Basic unit of the kidney
- Filtration
- water, Urea, glucose, salts, amino acids and vitamins filter into nephron
- Reabsorption
- needed materials reenter the blood stream
- Collection and
- concentrated urine is collected and leaves the kidney
The second half of class we saw a urine demonstration were we tested for glucose.
There is no homework due tomorrow but there is a test friday on digestion and excretion. The homework that was due today was the kidney dissection lab on pages 23-28 in the unit packet.
IZZY IS OUR NEXT SCRIBE
IZZY IS OUR NEXT SCRIBE
