Claytonia virginica is a woodland spring herb with flowers that vary from white, to pale pink, to bright pink. Slugs prefer to eat pink-flowering over white-flowering plants (due to chemical differences between the two), and plants experiencing severe herbivory are more likely to die. The bees that pollinate this plant also prefer pink to white flowers, so that Claytonia with pink flowers have greater relative fruit set than Claytonia with white flowers. A researcher observes that the percentage of different flower colors remains stable in the study population from year to year. Given no other information, if the researcher removes all slugs from the study population, what do you expect to happen to the distribution of flower colors in the population over time?

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#Question id: 12698

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

The following test results were obtained: urine flow rate = 2.0 ml/min; urine inulin concentration = 60 mg/ml; plasma inulin concentration = 2 mg/ml; urine potassium concentration = 20 μmol/ml; plasma potassium concentration = 4.0 μmol/ml; urine osmolarity = 150 mOsm/L; and plasma osmolarity = 300 mOsm/L. What is the net potassium reabsorption rate?

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#Question id: 12697

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

The following test results were obtained: urine flow rate = 2.0 ml/min; urine inulin concentration = 60 mg/ml; plasma inulin concentration = 2 mg/ml; urine potassium concentration = 20 μmol/ml; plasma potassium concentration = 4.0 μmol/ml; urine osmolarity = 150 mOsm/L; and plasma osmolarity = 300 mOsm/L. What is the approximate GFR?

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#Question id: 12659

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

 Which of the following would tend to decrease plasma potassium concentration by causing a shift of potassium from the extracellular fluid into the cells?

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#Question id: 12658

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

In a person on a high (200 mmol/day) potassium diet, which part of the nephron would be expected to secrete the most potassium?

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#Question id: 12561

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

Given the following measurements, calculate the filtration fraction: glomerular capillary hydrostatic pressure = 50 mm Hg; Bowman’s space hydrostatic pressure = 15 mm Hg; colloid osmotic

pressure in the glomerular capillaries = 30 mm Hg; glomerular capillary filtration coefficient (Kf) = 12 ml/min/mm Hg; and renal plasma flow = 400 ml/min.

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#Question id: 12560

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

If GFR suddenly decreases from 150 ml/min to 75 ml/min and tubular fluid reabsorption simultaneously decreases from 149 ml/min to 75 ml/min, which of the following changes will occur (assuming that the changes in GFR and tubular fluid reabsorption are maintained)?