whats the use of appendix?

Answer 1

It's a vestigial structure, and that means it is, like someone just said, useless for human beings. It's primary function is digesting cellulose, whish is found in most plants. I guess that explains why the rabbit has a larger appendix than yours, while tigers have no appendix at all. Then why the hell it's there? Because ancient homosapiens - human beings, you and me - before learning farming - were nomads; they had no houses, no villages, and of course, no farms. They simply moved from place to place and used the available plants for nutrition, that was before they learnt how to hunt. The point is, man's main food was grass and vegetables at some point in time, so his appendix developed to a large size. But after man learnt hunting, than farming, man ate less plants, so his appendix diminished to a smaller size and became functionless. Then why is it still there? Because man didn't have enough time to evolve this "appendix" to make it disappear, but give him a couple of hundred thousand years, and you'll surely have to worry no more about this appendix...

Answer 2

It is thought that it was used at one point in the past for digestion. Rabbits and other rodents use a similar organ for storing fibre while it ferments into a usable source of nutrients, it's possible that we performed a similar method but phased it out via evolution as we found other energy sources.

Unfortunately the appendix's original function is not actually known and removal of the appendix does not result in any apparent change in the body so it is probably safe to assume it does nothing.

Answer 3

prizeladies doctors are idiots.
first of all its not skin.
the appendix is in fact a remnant of a no longer used piece of the digestive system. other mammals still have it, and it seems to have been used to break down hard plantfibres, which have not been part of our diet for a long time. long term observation suggests that its average size decreases, which is a good hint that it is in fact useless nowadays.

there seems to be however evidence that it has taken up a new role and is in the process of becoming a new organ, producing certain digestive enzymes. these are also produced elsewhere in the body, so you can in fact live long and happily without it.
for now. this may become untrue within the next 50,000 years. maybe a little earlier :)

Answer 4

It depends on where u r using.
If u r writing any project report, then use it to provide some lists or informations or supporting documents or letters in details- or as it is in printed sources-- to give firm support of your statement in texts.
If u want to give some more details of some facts or state something which your main text could not adjust, give it to appendix.

Answer 5

The appendix is a useless vestige of the evolution of human kind.

Answer 6

When researchers examined the appendix microscopically, they found that it contains a significant amount of lymphoid tissue. Similar aggregates of lymphoid tissue occur in other areas of the gastrointestinal tract and are known as gut-associated lymphoid tissues. The functions of gut-associated lymphoid tissues are poorly understood; however, it is clear that these tissues are involved in the body's ability to recognize foreign antigens (molecules to which the immune system can respond) in ingested material.
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Answer 7

its a useless piece of whtever it is in our body..
it supposedly contains sum bacterias to feed on indigestible plant fibre..our monkey ancestors used 2 have big appendix back then now with evolution, it has reduced..

Answer 8

Nothing it is extra skin that just hangs there and sometimes gets in the way. My daugher had hers taken out I had the doctors explain every thing to me over & over again.

Answer 9

www.webmd.com

None, although it is a theory. It is known that we can live without it. It is believed to have held a purpose at some point in our evolution. Like wisdom teeth!

Answer 10

It is useless in man whereas in other herbivores it increases the area of absorption.