Since the online lecture was boring me I went on youtube and found this great video that taught me about the nephrons three basic functions. The nephrons functions are filtration, secretion, and reabsorption. The collecting duct job is to collect all materials that have not come back to the blood through tubular membranes. This material will leave the body as pee aka urine. The renal corpuscle handles filtration. The glomerulus filters protein and cells from the blood, and then all other blood components go into the Bowman's capsule. Secretion and reabsorbtion goes down in the tubule. The semi-permeable membranes surrounding the tubule allow certain things to be reabsorbed back into the blood.
I found this video on Youtube that was great in describing the structure and functions of the renal corpuscles and renal tubules. This video also worked well for objective 66. This video gives good information about the functions of the nephrons and collecting ducts.
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