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A 16-year-old girl is diagnosed with kidney failure. Despite receiving dialysis treatments for three months, her doctor tells her that she will need a kidney transplant. Her brother volunteers to donate his kidney How will he be able to survive if he donates his kidney?​

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Answer: A human just needs one out of the two kidney's to function. Once the brother has one kidney, that kidney will grow in size in order to adapt.

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Answer:

we have 2 kidneys

Step-by-step explanation:

the doctor already knows that we can have one lung or kidney

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