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Krish Gillespie
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24 June, 10:25
What is a vestigial organ
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Trevon
24 June, 10:40
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In humans the vermiform appendix is a vestigial structure; it has lost much of its ancestral function. Vestigiality refers to genetically determined structures or attributes that have apparently lost most or all of their ancestral function in a given species, but have been retained during the process of evolution.
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Clark Mcgee
24 June, 10:42
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This is an organ that served a purpose in the distant ancestor of an organism, but is not longer pertinent in the presently existing, recently evolved, organisms.
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