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Assume a new electric automobile is developed that performs much like gasoline except that it doubles a car's miles-per-gallon.However,electricity costs two and one-half times as much as gasoline.Why do you think such a new product might fail?


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Bowman's Capsule

A cup-like structure in the kidney that encloses the glomerulus and is the beginning of the tubular component of the nephron.

Collecting Duct

A tube in the kidney that receives filtrate from several nephrons and conducts it to the renal pelvis.

Directly Reabsorb

A process in which substances are taken back into the blood from the filtrate in the kidney tubules without undergoing any transformation.

Nephron

The functional, microscopic unit of the vertebrate kidney.

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