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The Malpighian tubules filter waste materials out of the blood, or hemolymph, of insects.

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Malpighian tubules are the tubules within a nephron in humans.

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If you observed a gradual increase in the solute concentration outside of the Malpighian tubules, what would you expect to happen?

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Malpighian tubules are tiny, bulb-shaped organs that open to an excretory pore in leeches.

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Excretory System.—Nitrogenous waste-matter is removed from the body by the Malpighian tubes which open into the food-canal, usually where the hind-gut joins the stomach.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various