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Is each of the organs useful to organism?

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(i) Most of the organs are useful to organisms. At the same time few organs may be present now but they have lost their function in the process of evolution.
(ii) In human beings, appendix, tail-bone (coccyx), wisdom teeth and body hair are not useful now.
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