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Oxygenated and deoxygenated blood do not get mixed up inside the heart because the heart was designed to keep these separate. This is why the heart is so complex.

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When blood reenters the heart is it deoxygenated or oxygenated?

Oxygenated


What is the advantage of the heart as a double pump?

Firstly ,Heart pumps deoxygenated coming from body, to the lungs and then the deoxygenated blood turns to oxygenated inside the lungs and after that it comes back to heart . After this, heart again pumps those oxygenated blood coming from lungs, to the body parts .So iIf there would be only one pump system then heart would be as hollow and all the deoxygenated and oxygenated blood would be mixed up inside the heart.


What structure in the heart separate oxygenated blood from deoxygenated blood?

The structure in the heart that separates oxygenated blood from deoxygenated blood is the atria. These are the two sides of the heart and are separated by the interatrial septum.


Deoxygenated blood travels away from the heart and toward the where it becomes oxygenated.?

Deoxygenated blood travels away from the heart to the lungs, where it picks up oxygen and becomes oxygenated.


What is the color of the blood coming to the heart and blood coming from the heart?

All blood is red, regardless of where it is in the body. Oxygenated blood and deoxygenated blood have slightly different shades, with deoxygenated blood being darker and oxygenated blood brighter.


Which blood vessels carry oxygenated and deoxygenated blood?

In the main, except from the pulmonary artery and vein. The pulmonary artery carries deoxygenated blood from the heart to the lungs and the vein carries oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart.


What contains deoxygenated blood?

Veins carry deoxygenated blood from the tissues and organs to the heart. Arteries are the means for carrying the oxygenated blood.


What chamber in a frog's heart contains both oxygenated and deoxygenated blood?

The right heart chambers (atrium and ventricle) contain deoxygenated blood. The left heart chambers contain oxygenated blood, since this blood has already been through the pulmonary system.


What would happen if there was no septum in the heart?

The deoxygenated blood and the oxygenated blood would mix.


What is the function interventricular septum?

It stops the deoxygenated blood from mixing with the oxygenated blood in the heart


Does a frog heart pump oxygenated blood or deoxygenated?

The blood passing into the frogâ??s aortic arches is a mixture of both the deoxygenated blood from the right atrium and the oxygenated blood from the left atrium. This mixture contains enough oxygen to supply the needs of the rest of the body.


Do the four pulmonary veins carry oxygenated or deoxygenated blood?

Pulmonary vein carries oxygenated blood from lungs to heart