Multiple choice

____ are the “functional” units of the kidney?

  1. nephrons

  2. renals

  3. Bowman’s capsules

  4. renal corpuscles
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Explanation

Nephrons are the microscopic structural and functional units of the kidney. Each kidney contains about one million nephrons, which perform the actual work of filtering blood and forming urine.

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