Question

State the function of the bowman capsule and glomerulus.

Answer 1

Bowman capsule:-

1. It is a double-walled cup-shaped structure present before and with continuity with the PCT (proximal convoluted tubule).
2. Inside this, there lies the glomerulus which is a tuft of leaky blood vessels

Glomerulus:-

1. It is the main filtering unit of the kidney.
2. It is composed of a network of capillaries and epithelial cells, the podocytes.

Function:-

1. The bowman's capsule helps the glomerulus to filter the blood to form urine.
2. The small molecules pass freely into Bowman's space, but larger cells, platelets and large proteins do not.
3. The glomerular capillary blood pressure causes the filtration of the blood through their layers of them.
4. The epithelial cells of Bowman’s capsule known as podocytes are arranged in a manner to leave some minute spaces called slit pores.
5. Then the blood is filtered so through these membranes, that almost all the constituents of the plasma except the proteins pass onto the lumen of the Bowman’s capsule.