Notes in Digestive and Excretory System

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Published 07/09/2023 What is the function of the digestive system?
Published 07/09/2023 What is the alimentary canal?
Published 07/09/2023 What is digestion?
Published 07/09/2023 What are the 6 basic activities that the organs of the digestive system provide?
Published 07/09/2023 Describe the function of the mouth
Published 07/09/2023 Describe the teeth
Published 07/09/2023 What is the dental formula?
Published 07/09/2023 Describe the oesophagus
Published 07/09/2023 Describe the two muscles and functions within the oesophagus
Published 07/09/2023 Describe the stomach and its function
Published 07/09/2023 Describe the use of the stomachs lining 
Published 07/09/2023 Describe the small intestine
Published 07/09/2023 Explain the use of pancreatic juice in small intestine
Published 07/09/2023 Explain the use of bile in the small intestine
Published 07/09/2023 Explain the use of Intestinal Juice in the small intestine
Published 07/09/2023 Explain how absorption occurs in the small intestine
Published 07/09/2023 Explain structure of villi in terms of its function
Published 07/09/2023 Explain absorption by villi in small intestine
Published 07/09/2023 Explain the function of the large intestine
Published 07/09/2023 Explain constipation
Published 07/09/2023 What can soluble fibres do to the digestive system?
Published 07/09/2023 What is diarrhoea and how is it caused
Published 07/09/2023 What is bowel cancer?
Published 07/09/2023 What is celiac disease?
Published 07/09/2023 What is excretion?
Published 07/09/2023 What are the organs involved in the process of excreting wastes?
Published 07/09/2023 What is the skins role in the excretory system?
Published 07/09/2023 What is the livers role in the excretory system?
Published 07/09/2023 What happens to protein in the excretory system?
Published 07/09/2023 What are proteins?
Published 07/09/2023 What is deamination?
Published 07/09/2023 When is deamination required?
Published 07/09/2023 Explain the process of deamination for eliminating
Published 07/09/2023 What happens to the remaining of the amino acids that broke down into the (NH2) for deamination?
Published 07/09/2023 What are the two equations for deamination?
Published 07/09/2023 Why is ammonia converted to urea?
Published 07/09/2023 What other functions does the liver have?
Published 07/09/2023 What are the kidneys function in the urinary system?
Published 07/09/2023 What are nephrons in the kidneys?
Published 07/09/2023 What does a nephron consist of?
Published 07/09/2023 What is the glomerulus?
Published 07/09/2023 What is the glomerular capsule/Bowman's capsule?
Published 07/09/2023 What is the renal tubules?
Published 07/09/2023 What is the proximal covulated tubule?
Published 07/09/2023 What is the distal covulated tubule?
Published 07/09/2023 What is the loop of henle?
Published 07/09/2023 What is the collecting duct?
Published 07/09/2023 What is the renal pelvis?
Published 07/09/2023 What is the urethra?
Published 07/09/2023 What are the kidneys?
Published 07/09/2023 What is the bladder?
Published 07/09/2023 What is the ureter?
Published 07/09/2023 What are the nephrons responsible for?
Published 07/09/2023 Describe the blood supply to the kidney
Published 07/09/2023 What is the afferent arteriole?
Published 07/09/2023 What is the efferent arteriole?
Published 07/09/2023 What are peritubular capillaries?
Published 07/09/2023 What are the 3 major processes of urine formation?
Published 07/09/2023 What are the functions of the kidney?
Published 07/09/2023 Where does glomerular filtration occur?
Published 07/09/2023 Describe glomerular filtration
Published 07/09/2023 What substances are in the filtrate after glomerular filtration?
Published 07/09/2023 Where does selective reabsorption occur?
Published 07/09/2023 Where does tubular secretion occur?
Published 07/09/2023 What substances get added to the filtrate from the blood in tubular secretion?
Published 07/09/2023 What happens to the urine in the collecting duct?
Published 07/09/2023 How much urine is produced in a healthy adult?
Published 07/09/2023 What is urine composed of?
Published 07/09/2023 What are kidney stones?
Published 07/09/2023 What is kidney failure?
Published 07/09/2023 How to prevent kidney diseases
Published 07/09/2023 What iemergency treatement is needed for kidney failure?
Published 07/09/2023 What is dialysis?
Published 07/09/2023 Describe peritoneal dialysis
Published 07/09/2023 Describe haemodialysis (artificial kidney)
Published 07/09/2023 Explain the elimination part of the large intestine
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