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Oksanka [162]
4 years ago
9

What is a vestigial organ

Biology
2 answers:
user100 [1]4 years ago
7 0
In humans the vermiform appendix is a vestigial<span> structure; it has lost much of its ancestral function. Vestigiality refers to genetically determined structures or attributes that have apparently lost most or all of their ancestral function in a given species, but have been retained during the process of evolution.</span>
Lelechka [254]4 years ago
3 0
This is an organ that served a purpose in the distant ancestor of an organism, but is not longer pertinent in the presently existing, recently evolved, organisms.
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