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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Degenerated or Underdeveloped organs which is not useful to human bt it is useful to others organisms is called as vestigal organs.
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Charles Darwin was familiar with the concept of vestigial structures, though the term for them did not yet exist. He listed a number of them in The Descent of Man, including the musclesof the ear, wisdom teeth, the appendix, the tail bone, body hair, and the semilunar fold in the corner of the eye.
Degenerated or Underdeveloped organs which is not useful to human bt it is useful to others organisms is called as vestigal organs.
Example :-
Charles Darwin was familiar with the concept of vestigial structures, though the term for them did not yet exist. He listed a number of them in The Descent of Man, including the musclesof 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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Modern human ears are one of the examples of Vestigial Anatomic Structure.
For more example: Wisdom teeth of Humans.
The wisdom teeth of humans are considered as a vestigial anatomic structure. The vestigial anatomic structure is an anatomical feature that has no purpose of having it in an organism.
The vestigial structures are often said to have a important function on the body of an organism but they have lost all of its functions because of the evolution.
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