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Usually some organs work together (like the esophagus and the stomach or the kidneys and the bladder) to achieve the same function, which is why organs are put into systems based on their functions. This also helps so that people, even if they don't know an organ's specific function, can still know it's basic function.
Because their components perform tasks or functions that are closely related. For example, the digestive system involves many organs, and the boundaries that distinguish one organ from another are somewhat arbitrary. For example, the alimentary canal can be thought of as one long tract (does that make it one organ?), but the oropharynx clearly serves a different function from the descending colon. Similarly, the small intestine differs significantly from the large intestine. And organs such as the gall bladder are clearly different from the intestine, but they are also obviously involved in digestion.

As the old song goes, "the hip bone's connected to the leg bone." All organ systems interact with each other directly or indirectly, but the distinctions are created by human beings based on our understanding of related functions.

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