The document discusses homeostasis and osmoregulation. It explains that homeostasis refers to the maintenance of a stable internal environment through physiological and behavioral controls like negative and positive feedback loops. Osmoregulation maintains water balance and involves diffusion, osmosis, and active transport of water and solutes. It then describes osmoregulatory mechanisms in invertebrates, fish, and the mammalian kidney which filters blood, secretes and reabsorbs solutes via the nephron to produce concentrated urine and regulate water balance.
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Homeostasis
1. Homeostasis
Biology 2: Form and Function
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11. Osmoregulation
Water is vital to the chemistry of life
Therefore, must attain a water balance
within the body
Water balance systems are based on three
processes:
Diffusion
Osmosis
Active transport
Osmoregulation processes often tied to
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12. Diffusion
The spread of molecules along a
concentration gradient by brownian motion,
towards a state of entropy
Osmosis (the diffusion of water)
Water moves from a low solute
concentration (hypotonic) to a high solute
concentration (hypertonic)
Active transport
The movement of molecules across a
membrane, usually against a gradient,
involving the expenditure of energy
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14. Osmoregulation in invertebrates
Since most invertebrate phyla evolved
in water, no shortage
However, differences in concentration
between the cell and the solution
surrounding it may cause problems
e.g., Amoeba in freshwater: hypertonic cell
in hypotonic solution
Result: movement of water into cell
Defense: Contractile vacuole pumps out
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15. Multicellular organisms use transport
epithelia to control water loss and excretion
Platyhelminthes
Protonephridia (flame cells) collect excess water in
addition to nitrogenous wastes, empty into
nephridiopore, excretes NH3
Annelida
Metanephridia organized on a per segment basis
collect waste from coelom via the nephrostome,
counters water uptake by epidermis, excretes NH3
Insecta
Malpigian tubules collect nitrogenous wastes from
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20. Osmoregulation in fish
Depends on environment
Freshwater
Cells are hypertonic to environment, must
defend against water uptake
Excretion of dilute urine
Mucous covering of epidermis
Marine
Cells are hypotonic to environment, must
defend against water loss
Water gain through food uptake and drinking
Concentration of urine
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29. Filtration
Occurs in Bowmans capule
Afferent arteriole from renal artery enters
glomerulus, exits via efferent arteriole
Blood filtered by capsule: all non-cellular
products pushed into nephron (proximal
tubule)
Filtrate includes products that must be
retained: blood sugars, salts and vitamins
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32. Secretion
Occurs in proximal and distal tubule
Secretion is initially active, although
certain molecular transport occurs
passively as a result
e.g., NaCl actively pumped out, H2O
follows
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34. Reabsorption
Materials that must be retained are
brought back by active transport or
passive diffusion
Result of absorption/secretion in Loop
of Henle is highly concentrated urine
Nephron tubule is lined by transport
epithelia
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35. The Loop of Henle
Descending limb is permeable to water but
not NaCl
H2O moves by osmosis to high salt
concentration in interstitial fluid
Thin segment of ascending limb is
permeable to NaCl which moves passively
by diffusion to equalize gradient
Thick segment of ascending limb actively
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