Asterix (character) Asterix (French: AstÃ©rix) is a fictional character the titular hero of the French comic book series The Adventures of Asterix. The series portrays him as a diminutive but fearless Gaulish warrior living in the time of Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars.
Basically, a nephron comprises a renal tubule and blood vessels. The renal tubule expands into a cup-shaped structure called the Bowman's Capsule, which contains a ball of capillaries known as the Glomerulus. The Glomerulus is the primary structure of the filtering process.
a) Reabsorption and secretion The filtrate you are talking about is also known as glomerular filtrate formed after the process of filtration. Now this filtrate will undergo reabsorption and then secretion to become urine.Glomerular filtrate contains water, waste products, salts, glucose and other chemicals from blood. In the process of reabsorption, glucose is entirely reabsorbed back to blood from proximal tubules. Also Na+ ions and water are reabsorbed.y the processes of ______, which form the urine that leaves the body. a. reabsorption and secretion b. secretion and excretion c. filtration and reabsorption d. filtration and secretion e.