NEET-UG Biology · Class 11
Nephron parts and their blood supply — NEET & JEE Questions
Nephron parts and their blood supply is a topic in Excretory Products and their Elimination, a Class 11 Biology chapter of the NEET-UG syllabus. TestBudy holds 14 published NEET-UG questions on Nephron parts and their blood supply, each with the marking scheme of the real paper. The ideas it examines include Two nephron types and their loop length, Vessels entering and leaving the nephron.
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Key formulas and concepts
The ideas Nephron parts and their blood supply is examined on, as they are tagged in the syllabus tree.
- Two nephron types and their loop length
- Vessels entering and leaving the nephron
Nephron parts and their blood supply MCQs with solutions
10 of the 14 published questions on this topic, exactly as they appear in a test. Answers and worked solutions come with your result rather than on this page.
The structural and functional unit of the kidney:
- A. alveolus
- B. sarcomere
- C. neuron
- D. nephron
What is the structural and functional unit of the kidney?
- A. Neuron
- B. Alveolus
- C. Nephron
- D. Hepatocyte
Which blood vessel carries blood into the glomerulus?
- A. Vasa recta
- B. Efferent arteriole
- C. Renal vein
- D. Afferent arteriole
The capillary tuft where ultrafiltration begins:
- A. vasa recta
- B. glomerulus
- C. collecting duct
- D. peritubular capillary only
What happens to the efferent arteriole after it leaves the glomerulus in a cortical nephron?
- A. It forms a network of peritubular capillaries around the renal tubule
- B. It empties directly into the renal pelvis
- C. It becomes the ureter
- D. It enters Bowman's capsule
Which nephron type has a long loop of Henle extending deep into the medulla?
- A. Cortical nephron with a very short loop
- B. Juxtamedullary nephron
- C. A nephron without a glomerulus
- D. Only fetal nephrons
Blood leaving a glomerulus through the efferent arteriole next enters vessels that closely surround the tubule. What is the main importance of this arrangement?
- A. It filters blood a second time into the renal pelvis
- B. It allows urine to mix directly with blood
- C. It supports rapid exchange during tubular reabsorption and secretion
- D. It prevents any solute from returning to blood
A nephron lies near the corticomedullary junction and its loop extends far into the medulla alongside straight capillaries. Which vessels are these straight capillaries?
- A. Pulmonary capillaries
- B. Coronary capillaries
- C. Hepatic sinusoids
- D. Vasa recta
Blood enters the glomerular capillary network through the
- A. afferent arteriole
- B. efferent arteriole
- C. renal vein
- D. vasa recta
After leaving the glomerulus through the efferent arteriole, blood supplying cortical tubules primarily enters
- A. peritubular capillaries
- B. renal pelvis
- C. ureter
- D. Bowman's capsule
Common mistakes in Nephron parts and their blood supply
Recorded against questions in this topic that are not shown above, so none of these points at an answer you can see on this page.
- Overlooking the efferent arteriole and treating the renal microcirculation as one ordinary capillary bed.
- Assuming the vasa recta create filtrate rather than help preserve the medullary environment.
- Confuses renal capillaries with lymphatic or portal vessels.
- Mixes the filtrate pathway with the vascular pathway.
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