Chapter 4: Urinary System

What is the process by which metabolic waste products are removed from the body called?

Which organ produces urine?

What is the structural and functional unit of the kidney called?

Which tube carries urine from the kidney to the urinary bladder?

What is the elastic muscular bag that stores urine called?

Which tube carries urine out of the body?

What is the main nitrogenous waste material in the urine of man?

In which organ is urea formed?

What is the cup-shaped structure that surrounds the glomerulus called?

What is the network of capillaries in the nephron called?