2007-03-15 14:39:37 · 15 answers · asked by Brian W 1 in Health ➔ Other - Health
No why, do you want to buy it off of me?
2007-03-15 14:45:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No you don't really need it for survival. You can live without it.
The appendix is thought to have descended from an organ in our distant herbivorous ancestors called the cecum (or cæ***). The cecum is maintained in modern herbivores, where it houses the bacteria that digest cellulose, a chemically tough carbohydrate that these animals could not otherwise utilise. The human appendix contains no significant number of these bacteria, and cellulose is indigestible to humans. It seems likely that the appendix lost this function before human ancestors became recognisably human.
Whether the appendix has a function or not, it can be removed without any ill effects.
2007-03-15 22:11:33 · answer #2 · answered by I want to help 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The appendix has no known function in humans. Evidence suggests that our evolutionary ancestors used their appendixes to digest tough food like tree bark, but we don't use ours in digestion now. Some scientists believe that the appendix will disappear from the human body.
2007-03-15 21:44:03 · answer #3 · answered by scareyd 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope, it has no function whatsoever. It is just a little sack that hangs off your intestines and sometimes fecal material gets trapped in it and causes an infection. When the infection can't be treated they surgically remove the appendix.
2007-03-15 21:44:48 · answer #4 · answered by Sarah G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. I think we needed it a couple of hundred thousand years ago to help deal with eating foliage (before we discovered cooking and eating meat). I think it's one of those evolutionary throwbacks that we don't use or need anymore.
Someone told me this and I haven't checked it out so I might be wrong, but it seems to make sense...
2007-03-15 21:44:07 · answer #5 · answered by greenfan109 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, as humans we don't, it is an old developmental remnant. In some animals it still has a function, such as the rabbit where it stores bacteria that aid plant breakdown.
2007-03-16 01:14:05 · answer #6 · answered by Dr Frank 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
Hundreds of years ago it used to be used to digest things like grass and stuff we dont eat anymore.
2007-03-16 07:22:22 · answer #7 · answered by bannister_natalie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had mine taken out 18 years ago and I'm fine.
2007-03-16 10:52:20 · answer #8 · answered by heyjude 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
MY APPENDIX BURST WHEN I WAS TWO AND ALMOST KILLED ME WHICH IS CALLED PERRETINUTUS SCUSE SPELLING AND IM 52 NOW SO I RECKON WE DONT NEED EM
2007-03-16 01:39:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. And there is no purpose of it according to medical research. Just a way of making the Dr.'s a little more money
2007-03-15 21:44:44 · answer #10 · answered by Rae 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No its a spare part suppose to have lost its use years ago.
2007-03-19 14:05:09 · answer #11 · answered by Ollie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋