Excretory Products and their EliminationHard

Question

Podocytes are the cells present in  :

Options

A.cortex of nephron
B.inner wall of Bowman′s capsule
C.outer wall of Bowman′s capsule
D.wall of glomerular capillaries

Solution

-The epithelial cells of Bowman’s capsule called podocytes are arranged in an intricate manner so as to leave some minute spaces called filtration slits or slit pores. Blood is filtered so finely through these membranes, that almost all the constituents of the plasma except the proteins pass onto the lumen of the Bowman’s capsule.

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