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Given below is a highly simplified diagram of the human kidney cut open longitudinally. Answer the questions that follow:

c) Why does the cortex of the kidney show a dotted appearance?

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The cortex of the kidney shows a dotted appearance because the cortex region contains convoluted tubules of the nephron.

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