NEET-UG Biology · Class 11
Filtration at the glomerulus — NEET & JEE Questions
Filtration at the glomerulus is a topic in Excretory Products and their Elimination, a Class 11 Biology chapter of the NEET-UG syllabus. TestBudy holds 13 published NEET-UG questions on Filtration at the glomerulus, each with the marking scheme of the real paper. The ideas it examines include Pressures that push and oppose filtration, How much filtrate is made each day, What stays behind in the blood.
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Key formulas and concepts
The ideas Filtration at the glomerulus is examined on, as they are tagged in the syllabus tree.
- Pressures that push and oppose filtration
- How much filtrate is made each day
- What stays behind in the blood
Filtration at the glomerulus MCQs with solutions
10 of the 13 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.
Where does ultrafiltration of blood occur in a nephron?
- A. Glomerulus and Bowman's capsule
- B. Loop of Henle
- C. Collecting duct
- D. Distal convoluted tubule
Which structure receives the filtrate produced by the glomerulus?
- A. Renal pelvis
- B. Bowman's capsule
- C. Ureter
- D. Collecting duct
The first major step of urine formation:
- A. countercurrent multiplication
- B. micturition
- C. glomerular filtration
- D. tubular secretion
Why is glomerular blood pressure relatively high?
- A. The glomerulus contains valves that pump blood
- B. The efferent arteriole is wider than the afferent arteriole
- C. The afferent arteriole is wider than the efferent arteriole
- D. Bowman's capsule actively contracts
Which substances are normally retained in the blood during glomerular filtration?
- A. Amino acids and bicarbonate
- B. Water and glucose
- C. Urea and salts
- D. Blood cells and most plasma proteins
A person's glomerular filtration barrier becomes unusually permeable to large plasma proteins. Which change in the filtrate is most directly expected?
- A. More plasma protein appears in the filtrate
- B. Glucose disappears completely from the filtrate
- C. No water enters Bowman's capsule
- D. All blood cells enter the filtrate normally
Blood flow into a glomerulus falls sharply because the afferent arteriole constricts. What immediate effect is most likely?
- A. Glomerular filtration rate increases greatly
- B. Glomerular filtration rate decreases
- C. Filtration becomes independent of blood pressure
- D. Urine becomes concentrated only because ADH rises
A healthy adult filters about 125 mL of plasma-derived fluid each minute through the kidneys. What is this value called?
- A. Cardiac output
- B. Renal plasma osmolarity
- C. Glomerular filtration rate
- D. Micturition rate
Which force most directly drives filtration of fluid from glomerular capillaries into Bowman's capsule?
- A. High glomerular blood hydrostatic pressure
- B. Active pumping by podocytes
- C. Low blood pressure in the afferent arteriole
- D. Contraction of the collecting duct
Substance X is freely filtered at the glomerulus but does not appear in final urine because it is completely reclaimed under normal conditions. Which process after filtration best explains this?
- A. Passive movement into Bowman's capsule
- B. Greater glomerular filtration
- C. Micturition
- D. Selective tubular reabsorption
Common mistakes in Filtration at the glomerulus
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- Treating glomerular filtration as an active transport process rather than pressure-driven filtration.
- Assumes proteins are freely filtered and then completely secreted back.
- Assumes reducing inflow raises filtration pressure.
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