You examine an animal and find that it has excretory tubules that have a closed proximal end

immersed in hemolymph and a distal end that empties into the gut. Which term should you use to
describe these tubules?



a. nephrons
b. hepatic tubules
c. metanephridia
d. Malpighian tubules
e. protonephridia


D

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