Question

Select vestigial organs from the following.

Options

• Forelimbs of whale, lizard, and bat.

• Vermiform appendix, wings of a bat, and coccyx of man.

• Vermiform appendix, nictitating membrane, and coccyx of man.

• Wings of bat, nictitating membrane, and wings of insects.

Answer 1

Vermiform appendix, nictitating membrane, and coccyx of man.

Explanation:

Vestigial organs are anatomical evidence used in explaining evolution. Vestigial organs give evidence of past history of man which includes the vermiform appendix, nictitating membrane, and coccyx which were functional in past but due to changed habitat, they became vestigial.