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6. What do the terms, 'negative' and, 'feedback' mean in negative feedback?

  • Negative as in an increase causes a decrease and vice versa and feedback as in a chain of events feeds back to the variable.
  • Negative as in an increase causes an increase and vice versa and feedback as in a chain of events feeds back to the variable.
  • Negative as in an increase causes a decrease and feedback as in a chain of events feeds back to the variable.
  • Negative as in an increase causes a decrease and vice versa and feedback as in a chain of events loops back..

7. What term describes the blood vessel that leads blood into the glomerulus?

  • Afferent arteriole
  • Efferent arteriole
  • Afferent capillary
  • Efferent capillary

8. How does ADH work to increase the reabsorption of water?

  • Causes more respiration
  • Walls of the distal convoluted tubule and collecting duct become thinner
  • Decreases water concentration of blood to cause osmosis
  • Walls of the Loop of Henlé become thinner

9. Which is of the following is NOT a feature of the proximal convoluted tubule?

  • Carrier molecules
  • Microvilli and infolding
  • Spaces
  • Lots of mitochondria

10. What protein makes up the glomerular basement membrane?

  • Collagen IV
  • Nephrin
  • Suberin
  • Collagen V