AIIMS AIIMS Solved Paper-2010

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    Direction for: In each of the following questions a statement of Assertion is given followed by a corresponding statement of Reason just below it. Of the statements mark the correct answer as

    Assertion The functional unit of excretory organs of lobsters is nephron. Reason The filtration of blood occur in the Malpighian body (the glomerulus and Bowmans capsule).

    A)  extinction of these species from other regions

    B)         continental separation

    C)         absence of terrestrial route to these places

    D)         retrogressive evolution

    Correct Answer: D

    Solution :

    Nephron is the principal functional unit of the kidney of vertebrates. Its number reaches to one million in each kidney. Filtration of blood occurs in Malpighian body, later is composed of a tuft of capillaries called the glomerulus together with the cupped end of the renal tubules, known as Bowmans capsule.


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