2006-07-01 21:24:01 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
This is a guess but maybe the appendix, or tonsils because things like the pituitary and thalmus are glands, I think? But than again isn't hair a vestigial organ? Are you talking, major organ or vestigial organ? You have me thinking!
2006-07-01 21:58:55 · answer #1 · answered by M360 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The cell is the smallest definite part of the body and therefore is the smallest organ
2006-07-02 04:30:48 · answer #2 · answered by mike 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The mitochondrion is the smallest organ (organelle) in the human body. Mitochondria are the power plants of all of the cells in our body, converting organic molecules to energy.
A cell can have hundreds or thousands of mitochondria inside of it.
But mitochondria have their own DNA. Depending on your definition, they might not qualify as an organ.
2006-07-02 05:48:44 · answer #3 · answered by elchistoso69 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well why some might say the smallest organ might be a penis...ha ha ha....I think its actually its a cell.
2006-07-02 04:31:54 · answer #4 · answered by katienpdx 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably either testes or ovaries. It wouldn't be a cell. Organs, by definition, are combinations of more than one tissue type and tissue is made up of many of the same type of cells.
2006-07-02 04:41:00 · answer #5 · answered by Billy C. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gall bladder.
Parathyroid gland if endocrine glands are included.
If we're counting cells and atoms as organs too, then a proto sub-atomic particle that hasn't even been discovered yet called a "kwinko". ;)
2006-07-02 04:30:49 · answer #6 · answered by anonfuture 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sweat glands are pretty small. A gland is an organ that releases something.
2006-07-05 00:36:47 · answer #7 · answered by Professor Armitage 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about one's parathymus gland. Or perhaps one of the other endocrine glands?
2006-07-02 04:30:54 · answer #8 · answered by tones1997 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My guess is it's the cochlea which is alson known as the eardrum.
2006-07-02 07:11:11 · answer #9 · answered by akblkbear 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your brain?
2006-07-02 04:27:48 · answer #10 · answered by televisionmademewhatiam 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋