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What is vestigial organ

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Answered by IAMPK2
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Vestigiality is the retention during the process of evolution of genetically determined structures or attributes that have lost some or all of their ancestral function in a given species. Assessment of the vestigiality must generally rely on comparison with homologous features in related species
Answered by SugaryGenius
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.VESTIGIAL ORGANS .

  • The organs which were function in the ancestors but non-functional and reduced in the descendants are called "Vestigial Organs".
  • Ex: Hind limbs in python,hind limbs and pelvic girdle in whale ,wings of flightless birds,vermiform appendix,coccyx,pica semilunatis.

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