In the most primitive vertebrates, the hagfish and lampreys, the kidney is unusually simple: it consists of a row of nephrons, each emptying directly into the archinephric duct.

The collecting duct system of the kidney consists of a series of tubules and ducts that connect the nephrons to the ureter.

The excretory system consists of segmented " kidneys " containing protonephridia instead of nephrons, and quite unlike those of vertebrates.

In antiquity, a cosmological view prevailed in India that held the Earth is a disc that consists of four continents grouped around the central mountain Meru like the petals of a flower.

The text of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas consists of several hundred verses, which have been grouped in 189 numbered paragraphs in the English translation most of which are just a few sentences.

The game consists of around 28 separate " levels " or " maps ", grouped into four episodes.

The main Ultima series consists of nine installments ( the seventh title is further divided into two parts ) grouped into three trilogies, or " Ages ": The Age of Darkness ( Ultima I-III ), The Age of Enlightenment ( Ultima IV-VI ), and The Age of Armageddon ( Ultima VII-IX ).

It consists of approximately 1, 190 coral islands grouped in a double chain of 26 atolls, spread over roughly 90, 000 square kilometers, making this one of the most disparate countries in the world.

It consists of a preamble and 103 articles grouped into eleven chapters.

Called in Turkish Yanartaş ( flaming rock ), it consists of some two dozen vents in the ground, grouped in two patches on the hillside above the Temple of Hephaestus about 3 km north of Çıralı, near ancient Olympos, in Lycia.

The Charter consists of a preamble and a series of articles grouped into chapters.

The residential estate consists of 13 terrace blocks, grouped around the lake and green squares within the complex.

The logical fallacy of the package deal consists of assuming that things often grouped together by tradition or culture must always be grouped that way.

The Devonian megafossil Prototaxites, which consists of masses of filaments grouped into trunk-like axes, has been considered a possible brown alga.

The plant division Gnetophyta or gnetophytes consists of three genera of woody plants grouped in the gymnosperms.

It appears that these shows were coined " reality shows " and grouped with other " reality shows " such as COPS and The People's Court in part because there is a popular perception that real life consists of disapproving and excluding others systematically from our lives.

The adrenal medulla consists of irregularly shaped cells grouped around blood vessels.

The municipality consists of 24 settlements grouped into five local communities: Dravograd, Črneče, Libeliče, Šentjanž pri Dravogradu, and Trbonje.

The operational arm of the Environment Agency consists of 20 areas grouped into seven regions, six in England and Environment Agency Wales, all of which report to the Director of Operations.

This was designed by Egon Eiermann and consists of four buildings grouped around the remaining ruins of the old church.

One MD4 operation: MD4 consists of 48 of these operations, grouped in three rounds of 16 operations.

The residential section is in the south, and consists chiefly of 34 high-rise and low-rise apartment buildings grouped in and around a rough oval with Overlea Boulevard dividing Thorncliffe Park Drive.

Klax consists of 100 levels grouped into blocks of five.

In a general sense, a FED consists of a matrix of cathode ray tubes, each tube producing a single sub-pixel, grouped in threes to form red-green-blue ( RGB ) pixels.

Based on Viking Orbiter images, the volcanic materials related to the formation and evolution of the volcano have been grouped into the Alba Patera Formation, which consists of lower, middle, and upper members.

The centre consists of a lecture theatre, meeting space, offices and seminar and teaching rooms grouped around an internal street atrium.

The Amber multiverse consists of Amber, a city at one pole of the universe wherein is found the Pattern, the symbol of Order ; The Courts of Chaos, an assembly of worlds at the other pole where can be found the Logrus, the manifestation of Chaos, and the Abyss, the source or end of all reality ; and Shadow, the collection of all possible universes ( shadows ) between and around them.

The Dargāh Sharīf of Khwāja Mu ' īnuddīn Chishtī is situated at the foot of the Tārāgaṛh hill, and consists of several white marble buildings arranged around two courtyards, including a massive gate donated by the Nizām of Hyderabad and the Akbari Mosque, built by the Mughal emperor Shāh Jahān.

Another utility knife often used for cutting open boxes consists of a simple sleeve around a rectangular handle into which single-edge utility blades can be inserted.

The old city consists of eight quarters, laid out in a mosaic style, forming the area around the Manger Square.

It consists of a number of low-lying, largely mangrove covered islands covering an area of around 665 km² ( 257 sq ; mi ).

Crocheting, like knitting, consists of pulling loops through other loops, but additionally incorporates wrapping the working material around the hook one or more times.

The Army, twice as large as the other services combined with about 24, 000 active duty personnel, consists of six infantry brigades, a combat support brigade, an air cavalry squadron and a combat service support brigade ; the Air Force operates two main bases, one in southern region near Santo Domingo and one in the northern region of the country, the air force operates approximately 40 aircraft including helicopters ; and the Navy maintains three aging vessels which were donated from the United States, around 25 patrol crafts and interceptor boats and two helicopters.

Digital filtering generally consists of some linear transformation of a number of surrounding samples around the current sample of the input or output signal.

The form of ' biosphere ' which I envisaged consists of a loose collection or swarm of objects traveling on independent orbits around the star.

γ Equ consists of a primary star with a magnitude around 4. 7 ( slightly variable ) and a secondary star of magnitude 11. 6, separated by 2 arcseconds.

The breaking of bread itself typically consists of one leavened loaf which is prayed over and broken by a participant in the meeting, and then shared around.

The French motorway network or autoroute system consists largely of toll roads, except around large cities and in parts of the north.

Each homotopy class consists of all loops which wind around the circle a given number of times ( which can be positive or negative, depending on the direction of winding ).

When the pilgrim is around from Mecca, he / she must dress in Ihram clothing, which consists of two white sheets.

The ordination of a deacon occurs after the Anaphora ( Eucharistic Prayer ) since his role is not in performing the Holy Mystery but consists only in serving ; the ceremony is much the same as at the ordination of a priest, but the deacon-elect is presented to the people and escorted to the holy doors by two sub-deacons ( his peers, analogous to the two deacons who so present a priest-elect ) is escorted three times around the Holy Table by a deacon, and he kneels on only one knee during the Prayer of Cheirotonia.

The Carnival Procession is around long and consists of 3. 000 participants, around 30 festival vehicles and around 20 bands and takes place every year.

A halter ( US ) or headcollar ( BI ) ( occasionally headstall ) consists of a noseband and headstall that buckles around the horse's head and allows the horse to be led or tied.

Linear B consists of around 87 syllabic signs and a large repertory of ideographic signs.

The human brain alone contains around a hundred billion neurons and a hundred trillion synapses ; it consists of thousands of distinguishable substructures, connected to each other in synaptic networks whose intricacies have only begun to be unraveled.

FAO estimates that around 9. 6 % of Nepal's forest cover consists of primary forest which is relatively intact.

The national network consists of three main trunk lines, seven secondary main lines and during its peak in the 1950s, around ninety branch lines.