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Name the following:

The structural and functional unit of the kidney.

Nephron is the structural and functional unit of the kidney.


Note: The kidney is made of enormous number of minute tubules called the nephrons or uriniferous tubules or the renal tubules.


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Name the following:

The inner lighter colored region of the kidney.

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Name the following:

Knot-like mass of blood capillary inside Bowman’s capsule.

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Name the following:

The blood vessel which:


(a) enters the Malpighian capsule


(b) leaves Malpighian capsule

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Given is a jumbled list of the parts of a certain body structure - Loop of Henle, Bowman’s capsule, distal convoluted tubule, glomerulus, proximal convoluted tubule.

(i) Name the structure to which the listed parts belong.


(ii) Rearrange the parts in their proper sequence from the starting point to where they end.