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Humans have tail bones are are vestigial. When humans stopped using tails, over several generations, they began to shrink, and now we are left with tail bones. However, there have been cases of people who were born with vestigial tails several centimeters long.
An example of a vestigial organ is the appendix.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 16y agoI believe it refers to things like your apendix, tailbone, in other words parts that no longer serve a clear purpose.
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∙ 12y agorefers to an organ or part for example the human appendix. it's reduced from the original ancestral form and is no longer functional. or is of reduced or altered function.
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What is a sentence using vestigial organ?
It's an organ that isn't used, but is still present in an animal's body. Here are some sentences.The appendix is a vestigial organ.An example of a vestigial organ is an emu's wing.Vestigial organs are evolutionary leftovers.
Who believed that an organ in disuse will be become vestigial?
Charles Darwin
Which organ is absent or vestigial in animals living in burrows?
The blind mole rat has a thin layer of skin covering its eyes, which is considered to be vestigial. There are also cavefish which have eyes that are vestigial. (There are also other vestigial traits in other animals that do not burrow.)
Do plants and animals share a common vestigial organ?
plants and animals are both living things.
Which is an vestigal structure human appendix deer horns multiple cow stomachs or snake tail?
Since "vestigial" means an organ that is atrophied or functionless from the process of evolution, out of the list of four structures that are given, the human appendix is that vestigial organ. All of the other organs, especially the "multiple cow stomachs" and the horns of a deer do play an important role to that animal's life.
What is vestigial organ Give an example?
A vestigial organ is an organ that has no beneficial use to an organism. Ex. Tail bone in Humans
Is the presence of a pelvis in a whale an example of a vestigial trait if not what then?
it is
What are some examples of vestigial organs?
The appendix is the best example of a vestigial organ.
What is a sentence using vestigial organ?
It's an organ that isn't used, but is still present in an animal's body. Here are some sentences.The appendix is a vestigial organ.An example of a vestigial organ is an emu's wing.Vestigial organs are evolutionary leftovers.
What is meant by the term vestigial?
Vestigial refers to something that is no longer needed or useful. Our appendixes are an example of a vestigial organ-they serve no biological purpose
Eyes in a blind salamander are an example of a type of organ known as what?
vestigial
Human tailbone is an example of what?
I believe this sort of structure is called a vestigial structure (a left over remnant). The appendix is another vestigial organ.
What is a good sentence for using vestigial organ?
The appendix is a vestigial organ.
The remnant of an organ that had a function in an early ancestor is known as?
Vestigal organ
What is a vestigial structure and what organ in the human body is one?
A vestigial structure is one that no longer appears to service a purpose in maintaining homeostasis. An example is the vermiform appendix.
Any structure that is reduced in function in a living organism but may have been used in an ancestor is known as a vestigial structure?
vestigial organ is for example"appendix"in human beings.another example is the"tail bone"in human beings.
What are examples of vestigial organ?
appendix
