Contrast osmoregulators vs osmoconformers

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Assignment: Osmoregulation

Overview: This last assignment is intended to reinforce material presented during the topic of osmoregulation. Specific assignment objectives: In this assignment, you will learn to:

• Define osmosis and explain how water moves via this process

• Describe the direction of passive water movement in aquatic organisms based on their osmolarity relative to the environment

• Compare/contrast osmoregulators vs. osmoconformers; and stenohaline vs. euryhaline organisms

• Evaluate the osmoregulatory problems of animals living in seawater, freshwater, and terrestrial environments; explain the mechanisms animals use to solve such problems

• Compare the three main types of nitrogenous waste products in animals and the scenarios in which they would be utilized

•Describe how structure is tied to function in the mammalian kidney and in the basic repeating unit of the kidney - the nephron

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