• Question: is animals organs the same as humans

    Asked by anon-202661 to Hanna on 14 Mar 2019.
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      Hanna Jeffery answered on 14 Mar 2019:


      We all have roughly the same organs, but they might be different in size and shape and number, and in how they work. For example, some animals have more hearts, more stomachs, more teeth than us, but those parts still do the same job that ours do. Flies eyes are much more complicated than ours. Think of the great variety of different limbs out there – tails, tentacles, wings, arms, legs – but they are all for getting around, protecting ourselves and gathering food. We all need oxygen, but some use lungs, some use gills, some get it through their shell/skin…
      I have heard that the part of the ear we use for balance is similar in some fish – but they use it for hearing. Every ear has an inner part which is curled up like a snail shell (the cochlea). In some animals it is bigger or smaller, or longer than ours and that is why they can sometimes hear higher or quieter sounds than we can.

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