Kangas joined Nightly Business Report in 1979; in 2003, his Stocks in the News segment earned a Financial Writers and Editors Award from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. In 2005, he won a Suncoast Chapter Silver Circle Award.
What Is a Malpighian Tubule? Malpighian tubules are organs within insects that excrete solid waste. Larvae of certain species of beetles use Malpighian tubules to produce silk.
The distal convoluted tubule has a different structure and function to that of the proximal convoluted tubule. Cells lining the tubule have numerous mitochondria to produce enough energy (ATP) for active transport to take place.he distal convoluted tubule has a different structure and function to that of the proximal convoluted tubule. Cells lining the tubule have numerous mitochondria to produce enough energy (ATP) for active transport to take place.