What are vestigial organs? Write two example of vestigial organs?
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Answer:
The organs present in the body which is non-functional and is incompletely developed are vestigial organs." The examples of vestigial organs - Wisdom teeth, vermiform appendix, ear muscles, coccyx, caecum, nictitating membrane etc. in human are the examples of vestigial organs.
Explanation:
IN HUMANS
The organs present in the body which is non-functional and is incompletely developed are vestigial organs." The examples of vestigial organs - Wisdom teeth, vermiform appendix, ear muscles, coccyx, caecum, nictitating membrane etc. in human are the examples of vestigial organs.
IN PLANTS
For example, The plant belonging to basal angiosperms (amborella trichopoda) have the vestigial organs in their flowers that suggests they evolved from plants that produced both pollen and ovules in the same flower. Also in the plant cassia, androecium is vestigial so it's androcium is pistinode.