Across
- 3. Produced as a by-product when amino acids are broken down.
- 6. Made up of a descending and ascending limb.
- 7. Part of the nephron that includes the glomerulus and glomerular capsule.
- 8. Outer region of kidney.
- 11. Useful substances are reabsorbed into capillaries from the renal tubules.
- 12. Substances are moved into renal tubules from peritubular capillary.
Down
- 1. Filtering units of kidney.
- 2. Amount of blood filtered by glomerular capillaries per minute or day.
- 4. Capillaries that filters blood in each nephron.
- 5. Type of nephron which lies almost completely in the renal cortex.
- 9. Tube that transports urine from kidney to bladder.
- 10. Takes urine outside of the body.