Respiration and Excretion

BOOK LUNGS

What is the function of Book Lungs?

Describe the insect tracheal system

What is discontinuous ventilation

What are the three stages of discontinuous ventilation?

What are tracheal gills?

What is a physical gill?

Why is a physical gill only temporary?

What are plastrons?

What is Dead Space

What is tidal volume?

What is the Aveloar Volume?

How does a frog ventilate its lungs?

How do reptiles ventilate their lungs?

Why are nitrogeneous wastes harmful?

What are the 3 main types of nitrogeneous waste?

What are the lesser quantities of nitrogen excreted?

What is the name for organisms that excrete nitrogeneous waste as ammonia?

Benefits of ammonotelic animals?

what is the name of animals which produce urea?

How is urea produced?

Describe the water, solutbility and toxicity of urea.

Disadvantages of urea

what animals produce urea

what are the animals ccalled who excrete uric acid?

what kind of animals produce uric acid?

advantages of being purineotelic

disadvantages of puineotelic

What animals produce uric acid

what are the 2 main processes of excretion?

describe filtration

describe reabsoption and modification of the urine

what are podocytes?

what is the importance of basal lamina and pododytes?

how is primary urine produced?

what is metaniphridia?

what is the nephrostome?

what is the purpose of cilia on the nephrostome?

what is the nephropore?

what is the anatomy of the kidney?

what are malphigian tubes

how does the insect extretory system work?