Why are nephrons considered the structeral and functional units of the kidney?
The kidneys contain functional units known as nephrons.
The basic structural unit of the kidney is the Nephron.
Nephrones
the cortex
Each one consists of a renal corpuscle and a renal tubule which carry out the functions of the nephron. The renal tubule consists of the convoluted tubule and the loop of Heinle http://coe.fgcu.edu/Faculty/GreeneP/kidney/nephron.html.
glomerulus is the clusture of cappillaries it is present along with cupshaped capsule called bowman's capsule or it is collectively called renal corpuscle
Filtration, Reabsorption, and Secretion
The structural and functional unit of the kidney.
The glomerulus, it is part of the nephron.
If you are talking about the proximal/distal convoluted tubules. Then you are talking about a kidney, and in between them is the nephron loop or the Loop of Henle
in side the kidney
The functional unit of the kidney is the nephron. Each kidney is made up of 1.25 million nephrons. A doctor specializing in kidneys is a nephrologist.
It is known as the nephron.
Each one consists of a renal corpuscle and a renal tubule which carry out the functions of the nephron. The renal tubule consists of the convoluted tubule and the loop of Heinle http://coe.fgcu.edu/Faculty/GreeneP/kidney/nephron.html.
glomerulus is the clusture of cappillaries it is present along with cupshaped capsule called bowman's capsule or it is collectively called renal corpuscle
The Loop of Henle is situated in the Kidney. It is a part of the nephron.
Filtration, Reabsorption, and Secretion
Nephron
Actually ,it would be a disease stopping it from functioning.The basic unit of the filteration would be that the kidney cleans out your blood system.the kidney makes the blood flow.Without the kidney you would most likey die unless someone gives you one. I think the answer you are looking for is the nephron. The nephron is the basic funtioning unit of the kidney.
That would be the nephron.
Nephron is the basic structural and functional unit of the kidney. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephron It is composed of a renal corpuscle and a renal tubule. The renal corpuscle consists of a glomerulus and the Bowman's capsule. It is the nephron's initial filtering component. The components of the renal tubule are the proximal convoluted tubule, loop of Henle and the distal convoluted tubule.