• Question: What are the major organs in the body and their functions? thanks!

    Asked by anon-193530 to Carl, Emma, Heidi, iainstaniland, Jamal, Morwenna on 11 Nov 2018.
    • Photo: Emma Crawford

      Emma Crawford answered on 11 Nov 2018:

      Looking online, there doesn’t seem to be agreement on what are agreed to be the major organs in the body and how many organs a human can have! I found a cool interactive human body with the organs on the website below. If you click on each organ it will tell you their function! 🙂

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/factfiles/organs_anatomy.shtml

    • Photo: Heidi Gardner

      Heidi Gardner answered on 12 Nov 2018:

      Humans have five vital organs that are essential for survival.
      These are:
      Brain – the body’s control center, receiving and sending signals to other organs through the nervous system and through secreted hormones. It is responsible for our thoughts, feelings, memory storage and general perception of the world.
      Heart – responsible for pumping blood throughout our body.
      Kidneys – removes waste and extra fluid from the blood. The kidneys take urea out of the blood and combine it with water and other substances to make urine.
      Liver – detoxifies the body of harmful chemicals, breaks down of drugs, filters of blood, secretes bile and produces of blood-clotting proteins.
      Lungs – responsible for removing oxygen from the air we breathe and transferring it to our blood where it can be sent to our cells. The lungs also remove carbon dioxide, which we exhale.

      They’re the vital organs, but there are also other organs and body systems that play a major part in the function of the human body!

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