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Svetllana [295]
4 years ago
12

The functional unit of the kidney is called the nephron and is comprised of

Medicine
1 answer:
dolphi86 [110]4 years ago
8 0

Answer: Option C  

Explanation:

The nephron is the microscopic structure found in the kidney. It is the structural and functional unit of kidney.

It is composed of renal tubule, glomerulus and Bowman's capsule. The renal corpuscles consists of a tuft of capillaries which is known as glomerulus.

Bowman's Capsule can be defined as a sac like structure   that lies at the starting of the tubular part of a nephron in a kidney. It performs the first step of filtration of blood that reaches the kidney.

Hence, the correct answer is all of these.

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