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| 8431029130 | Metabolic Process | Any chemical reaction occurring inside the body that keeps us alive. EX. cell respiration, enzyme reactions, immune responses, etc. | 0 | |
| 8431029131 | Excretion | The removal of metabolic waste. | 1 | |
| 8431029132 | Metabolic Waste | Any waste products from a metabolic chemical reaction. | 2 | |
| 8431029133 | Diffusion | The movement of molecules from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration. |  | 3 |
| 8431029134 | Active Transport | The movement of molecules that require energy. | 4 | |
| 8431029135 | How do plants excrete? | Plants excrete water vapor and oxygen through their stomates and lenticles. | 5 | |
| 8431029137 | Nephron | The functional unit of the kidney, in which waste products are filtered from the blood and urine is produced. |  | 6 |
| 8431029141 | Homeostasis | The maintaining of stable internal conditions. | 7 | |
| 8431029142 | Kidney | An excretory organ that filters waste from the blood and creates urine. |  | 8 |
| 8431029143 | Ureter | An excretory organ the moves urine from the kidney to the urinary bladder. | 9 | |
| 8431029144 | Urinary Bladder | An excretory organ the temporarily stores urine. |  | 10 |
| 8431029145 | Urethra | An excretory organ that carries urine from the urinary bladder out of the body. | 11 | |
| 8431029147 | Lung | An excretory organ that removes carbon dioxide & water from the body. |  | 12 |
| 8431029148 | Capillary | The ONLY type of blood vessel in which diffusion can occur between blood and other body structures. |  | 13 |
| 8431068678 | Urea | A nitrogenous waste made in the liver. It forms when proteins/amino acids breakdown. | 14 | |
| 8431073484 | Liver | An organ that makes urea. | 15 | |
| 8431083405 | Bowman's Capsule | The place where filtration takes place in the nephrons. | 16 | |
| 8431098238 | Removed from the kidneys as urine | water, salts, urea, and other materials | 17 | |
| 8431100968 | Removed from the lungs | Carbon dioxide & water | 18 | |
| 8431100969 | Removed by the skin | water, salt, urea | 19 | |
| 8431652838 | Decreased urine output | Producing less urine or urinating less often | 20 | |
| 12168567906 | filtration | Separating large molecules from smaller ones, as in the glomerulus and Bowman's capsule of a nephron. | 21 | |
| 12168571667 | filtrate | fluid that passes from the blood through the capillary walls of the glomeruli of the kidney | 22 | |
| 12168577602 | reabsorption | process in the kidney that puts useful substances (water, glucose, amino acids) back into the blood | 23 | |
| 12168577603 | Loop of Henle | section of the nephron tubule that is responsible for conserving water and minimizing the volume of the filtrate | 24 | |
| 12168635426 | Deamination | the removal of an amino group from an organism, particularly from an amino acid | 25 |
