The nephron is composed of: (1) the glomerulus, a tuft of capillaries, which produces the glomerular filtrate, housed in the renal corpuscle; followed by a series of tubules, specialized for excretion and reabsorption, including (2) the proximal convoluted tubule, (3) the descending and ascending loop of Henle, and (4) the distal convoluted tubule.
Anna Julia Cooper Anna Julia Cooper was born in Raleigh, North Carolina on August 10, 1858. Cooper was the eldest of two daughters born to an enslaved black woman, Hannah Stanley and her white master George Washington Haywood (Rashidi, 2002).
Synopsis. James Fenimore Cooper was born on September 15, 1789 in Burlington, New Jersey. He began his writing career after a wager with his wife and published his first book, Precaution, anonymously in 1820. His later series The Leatherstocking Tales (which includes The Last of the Mohicans) introduced the character Natty Bumppo. The books were hugely popular and have become American classics. Cooper died in 1851.