how does Malpighian tubules work
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Malpighian tubule, in insects, specially in cockroach, any of the excretory organs that lie in the abdominal cavity and empty into the junction between midgut and hindgut. In species having few malpighian tubules, they are long and coiled; also malpighian tubule is floating in a himolimph, in cockroach there are 150 malpighian tubules are present.
Malpighian tubules are an excrtory organ and osmoregulatory system found in some insects, myriapods, arachnids, and tardigrades..
This branching tubules extending from the alimentary canal that absorbs solutes, water, and wastes from the surrounding hemolymph and form a urine and The urine passes through the intestine, and into the rectum
The main function of the Malpighian tubules of insects is the excretion of nitrogenous products and other remains of metabolites.
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