Multiple Choice
You examine an animal and find that it has an excretory tubule with a closed proximal end immersed in hemolymph and a distal end that empties into the gut. You correctly identify this tubule as a ____.
A) nephron
B) hepatic tubule
C) metanephridium
D) Malpighian tubule
E) protonephridium
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