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What is a vestigial stucture

A. A type of soul without a membrane-bound nuclear us and without a membrane bound organelles
B. Structures that occur in different species better similar enough to suggest that that the Species had a common ancestor
C. A type of sale that has a membrane-bound nuclear us in a membrane-bound organelles
D. Structures that appear to have no function for the organism but probably had a function in an ancestral organism

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Step-by-step explanation:

Vestigiality is the retention during the process of evolution of genetically determined structures or attributes that have lost some or all of the ancestral function in a given species. Assessment of the vestigiality must generally rely on comparison with homologous features in related species.

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