Water and small solutes are filtered under pressure out of the blood plasma into nephrons through the porous walls of ________, tufts of capillaries in the renal cortex.

A. juxtaglomerular apparati
B. Loops of Henle
C. collecting ducts
D. vasa rectae
E. glomeruli


Answer: E

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