• Question: what is the most complex part of the body?

    Asked by anon-181162 on 5 Jun 2018.
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      Camille Parsons answered on 5 Jun 2018:

      I don’t know the correct biological answer, but I think it’s brain. It does all our thinking, at the same time as keeping the rest of our body running, at the same time as allowing us to move. I mean when was the last time you thought about remembering to breath! Our brain has got it all covered and looks after us 🙂

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      Lauren Burns answered on 6 Jun 2018:

      I also do not know the correct biological answer, but I 100% agree with Camille and think the brain is the most amazing part of our body. More than what has been mentioned, the brain actually has amazing coping mechanisms if things go wrong. There are multiple ways that it can cope with any bad things, such as lesions, if a lesion is blocking the main part of the brain for language, then other parts of the brain that focused on other things can adapt and be used for language. Also, the brain has a tendency to fill in gasps. When we see, we actually have blind spots in our vision (because of the position of the eyes in our head and what’s called the Occipital Lobe (the bit of the brain that controls sight)). The brain actually interprets what should be seen by using the surrounding area, which is why we don’t notice any gaps day-to-day. If you like, you can do some tests that will show your blind spots!

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      Laura Hemming answered on 6 Jun 2018:

      My personal opinion would be the brain – it is absolutely fascinating!

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      Claire Donald answered on 8 Jun 2018:

      If you had said ‘organ’ I would have agreed with others and said the brain but, as you said ‘part’, I’m going to say the immune system. The immune system is made up of 2 different parts- the innate immune system (like your skin, mucous membranes and stomach acid which act as physical barriers against infections), and the adaptive immune system (like white blood cells that make antibodies and antitoxins). So our immune system is made up of LOTS of different cell types that all need to do different jobs to target pathogens (like bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites) and stop them making us sick. Some of these cells even learn what pathogens look like so the next time we get infected by that specific pathogen, it already knows what to do. That is how we get immunity to some diseases. We can kick start this immunity by vaccination. All of the different parts need to talk to each other to coordinate the attack so it can get very complicated.

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