Question

Explain vestigial organs.

Answer 1

1. Vestigial organs are organs, tissues or cells in a body which are no more functional the way they were in their ancestral form of the trait.
2. It is authentication of evolution and hence, were helpful in explaining adaptation.
3. Such a structure can arise due to gene mutation which causes a change in the proteins.
4. These mutated proteins result in the formation of vestigial structures.