9.3: nephrons
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what do the kidneys do?
filters waste from blood to produce urine
what are kidneys made out of?
millions of nephrons
what are nephrons?
microscopic tubes that make up the kidney
what do nephrons do?
filters waste out of blood, edits the waste to create urine
what are the 2 parts of a nephron?
renal corpuscle and renal tubule
what are the parts of the renal corpuscle?
bowman’s capsule and glomerulus
what is the golmerulus?
set of capillaries where blood comes in
what does the bowman’s capsule do?
collects all the material filtered out of the blood
what is the renal corpuscle responsible for?
filtration
what is the material filtered out of blood called?
filtrate
what does the renal tubule do?
edits filtrate to create urine
what does editing mean?
take more materials out to give to the body, takes more material from blood to put into urine
what is the process of creating urine?
blood enters
blood is filtered (waste is removed)
nephron alters the contents (only urine is left)
urine is ejected