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Name the following:

The blood vessel which:


(a) enters the Malpighian capsule


(b) leaves Malpighian capsule

(a) Afferent arteriole is the blood vessel which enters the Malpighian capsule.


Note: This afferent arteriole breaks into a number of capillaries which forms the knot-like glomerulus that fits into the Bowman’s capsule.


(b) Efferent arteriole is the blood vessel that leaves the Malpighian capsule.


Note: The capillaries when leaves the glomerulus reunites to form the efferent neuron.


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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 structural and functional unit of the kidney.

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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.

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State if the following statements are true or false.

(i) The blood flows through glomerulus under great pressure.


(ii) Glomerular filtrate consists of many substances such as water, salts, glucose and white blood corpuscles.


(iii) Sodium chloride contained in glomerular filtrate is fully reabsorbed in the renal tubule.


(iv) Besides the normal constituents, the urine may pass out excess vitamins but not the antibiotics.


(v) Excessive uric acid and urine may produce kidney stones.