Question

Which of the following is false regarding the ureter?

a) it is a single tube, lined with stratified squamous epithelium that drains the contents of urinary

bladder to the external environment

b) Peristalsis of urine from the renal pelvis to urinary bladder is managed in the ureter by inner

longitudinal and outer circular layers of smooth muscle

c) the urothelium lining each ureter is highly elastic and it tolerates great amounts of shape change.

d) Uroplakins found within the apical phospholipid bilayer of surface urothelial cells greatly limit the

osmotic movement of water from the lumen of the ureter

e) the paired ureters join the urinary bladder at its base

Answer 1

ANSWER:- (a) it is a single tube, lined with stratified squamous epithelium that drains the contents of urinary

bladder to the external environment