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Vestigial structures are anatomical structures of organisms in a species which are considered to have lost much or all of their original function through evolution.

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How do you use vestigal structure in a sentence?

Whales and some other cetaceans have unusable leg bones as a vestigal structure.


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Vestigial structures are anatomical structures of organisms in a species which are considered to have lost much or all of their original function through evolution.


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What is the term for structure that has no use in an organism?

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What feature is the wing of a bat and the foreleg of an alligator A.anagolous B.homologous C.vestigal D. artificially selected?

vestigal structure because they are used for the same thing just look different.Answervestigal structure because they are used for the same thing just look different.