Animal Physiology: Circulation and Excretion
Describe the evolutionary change in the pattern of heart among the vertebrates.
Single heart circuit occurs in:
All vertebrates possess a muscular chambered heart. Fishes have a 2-chambered heart with an atrium and a ventricle.
Amphibians and the reptiles (except crocodiles) have a 3-chambered heart with two atria and a single ventricle, whereas crocodiles, birds and mammals possess a 4-chambered heart with two atria and two ventricles.
In fishes, the heart pumps out deoxygenated blood, which is oxygenated by the gills and supplied to the body parts from where deoxygenated blood is returned to the heart (single circulation).
Describe the evolutionary change in the pattern of heart among the vertebrates.
Number of chambers in the heart of cockroach is
Heart of cockroach is
Heart of frog differs from that of rabbit by presence of
Heart of fishes is
Heart of fish receive
Right atrium of rabbit receives
In rabbit, oxygenated blood flows from
Heart of elephant is
Which animal has most mixing of oxygenated and deoxygenated blood in the ventricles?