• Question: What are the different types of ortgans

    Asked by 2044rachel to Clare, Mariana, Pedro, Robert, Susanne on 15 Nov 2012.
    • Photo: Susanne Muekusch

      Susanne Muekusch answered on 15 Nov 2012:

      Hi Rachel,

      The organs are the functional units of the body. Each organ has its own job: The heart pumps the blood, the kidneys are filtering it, the brain is controlling the body, the stomach digests food….. To name a few. Does that answer your question?

    • Photo: Clare Taylor

      Clare Taylor answered on 15 Nov 2012:

      If you want to know more about organs, there’s a great picture here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/factfiles/organs_anatomy.shtml

    • Photo: Mariana Campos

      Mariana Campos answered on 16 Nov 2012:

      Different type of organs do different functions like Susanne said. And you cannot replace one for the other. Sometimes they come in pairs, like your kidneys and your lungs. In this case, for instance, if one kidney doesn’t work properly, the other one tries to work harder to compensate. Did you know that the biggest organ of your body is your skin? And that the liver is the only internal organ that, if you remove part of it, it can regenerate?

    • Photo: Robert Insall

      Robert Insall answered on 22 Nov 2012:

      Rachel,

      Since this is the cancer zone…

      The seriousness of a cancer depends on which organ it came from originally. Cancers from the skin, for example, are mostly not that dangerous (unless they’re melanoma, which is from the pigment cells, which is nasty). Tumours from pancreas cells or lung cells can be really brutal, though, and it’s hard to survive cancer from those cells.

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