NEET Biology Excretory Products and their Elimination Question Bank Self Evaluation Test - Excretory Products and their Elimination

  • question_answer
    The appearance of albumin in the urine is most likely due to:             

    A) Increase in the blood pressure.

    B) Decrease in the blood osmotic corpuscles

    C) Damage to the Malpighian corpuscles.

    D) Damage to the proximal convoluted tubules.

    Correct Answer: C

    Solution :

    [c] Normally albumin cannot pass out through the filtering pores due to their large size but in some pathological conditions viz. anoxia or heart failure, the filtration membrane becomes damaged and filtering pores enlarge in size, so that serum albumin passes out in the largest amount and appears in the urine.


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