Question

6.
Define vestigial organs. Write names
of some vestigial organs in human
body and write the names of those
animals in whom same organs are
functional
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Answer 1

Answer:

Charles Darwin listed a number of putative human vestigial features, which he termed rudimentary, in The Descent of Man (1871).

These included the muscles of the ear; wisdom teeth; the appendix; the tail bone; body hair; and the semilunar fold in the corner of the eye.

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Answer 2

Answer:

Vestigial organs are degenerated or underdeveloped organs of organisms which do not perform any function. ..The examples of vestigial organs - Wisdom teeth, vermiform appendix, ear muscles, coccyx, caecum, nictitating membrane etc. in human are the examples of vestigial organs.

The appendix is vestigial for humans, it does not perform any function but in ruminant animals, it is

concerned with digestion.