Choose the One Most Appropriate Answer for Each

question 62

Multiple Choice

Choose the one most appropriate answer for each.
-Convection

• A)In hummingbirds, this mode of heat regulation allows higher metabolic rates during the day and cooler body temperature at night.
• B)Method of dialysis in which solution is pumped into a patient's abdominal cavity, and wastes diffuse across the cavity lining into the solution, which is drained out
• C)Bulk flow of protein-free plasma from capillaries into Bowman's capsule
• D)Animals with more or less constant body temperature
• E)Emission of heat from body surface when environmental temperature is lower than the body temperature
• F)Movement of ions from peritubular capillaries into nephron tubules
• G)State of prolonged inactivity that desert reptiles and amphibians use to survive a hot, dry season
• H)Heat next to the body's surface undergoes mass transport by air or water currents
• I)Active and passive transport of solutes from peritubular capillaries into the glomerular capillaries
• J)A long, slender, tubular unit in the vertebrate kidney that forms urine
• K)Body temperatures rise and fall with environmental changes.
• L)Secreted by adrenal cortex; increases sodium reabsorption
• M)Passive transport of water; active and passive transport of solutes out of the nephron into peritubular capillaries
• N)Heat energy is transferred from high to low-temperature regions due to collisions between adjacent molecules.
• O)Pituitary hormone that increases reabsorption of water through aquaporins
• P)Method of removing toxic substances from blood by circulating it through semipermeable tubes immersed in a solution
• Q)Fast skeletal muscle contractions stimulated by the hypothalamus

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