EXCRET

ORY
SYSTEM
Biology Y3
Functions:
1. EXCRETION waste elimination/expulsion

2. OSMOREGULATION keeping constant amount of H₂O in the cells

3. HOMEOSTASIS
internal balance

Osmoregulating mechanisms:
1. EXCRETION

2. SWEATING

3. BREATHING
Anatomy of the
excretory system

kidney

urether

bladder

urethra
Distribution in males and females
 renal
renal cortex
medula

renal pelvis Kidney

-bean shaped pair organ
-in front of the 12th rib
renal artery
-in the back of the abdominal
from ♥
cavity

renal vein
from kidney to
the body

urether
 Bowman´s
*
Nephro glomerulus
capsule

a knot of
n capilaries
distal-
proximal- convoluted
-the basic unit of a convoluted
tubule
tubule

kidnney selective
reabsorption
-regulates the salt content
collecting
of blood, pressure, pH of duct
urine
loop of
Henlé
reabsorption
Glomerulus + Bowman´s of H₂O by
capsule
* =
osmosis

Mapighian body
Coloured scanning electron micrograph
of glomerulus

Coloured scanning electron micrograph of glomeruli

capillaries and the larger blood vessels supplying them
with blood.

Surrounding cell are removed for better display of

glomeruli
 GLOMERULUS PRPOXIMAL-CONVOLUTED TUBULE

BOWMAN'S CAPSULE.

The solid mass inside is the GLOMERULUS surrounded

by a clear space, the BOWMAN'S CAPSULE.

The glomerulus is a mass of Capillaries--blood pressure

forces the liquid portion of the blood (plasma) through the
capillary membranes into the Bowman's Capsule. The
filtrate then enters the renal tubules where the
physiological processes of reabsorption and secretion
convert the filtrate to urine.
from blood to urine