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All mammals (monotremes, marsupials, and placental mammals) have the same heart structure: a four chambered heart. The four chambers are the left atrium, the left ventricle, the right atrium, and the right ventricle. The right atrium receives deoxygenated blood from the veins. It pumps it into the right ventricle. The right ventricle pumps it into the pulmonary arteries, which go to the lungs. The lungs have received oxygen and give it to the blood coming through. The now oxygenated blood flows back to the heart by pulmonary veins, and is received by the left atrium. The left atrium pumps the oxygenated blood into the left ventricle. The left ventricle pumps the blood to all of the body through arteries.

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Why are the four chambered design of the mammalian heart is an improvement over the three chambered design?

because it has different chambers


Why is the four chamber heart a poor choice of structure to place creatures on a phylogenic tree?

The four-chambered heart is not a poor choice for phylogenetic trees; it is actually a shared feature among mammals and some birds. Its presence in a wide range of species suggests a common evolutionary ancestry, making it a useful trait for tracing evolutionary relationships.


What are the chambers in a pig heart?

A pig heart has four chambers: the right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, and left ventricle. Blood enters the heart through the right atrium, flows into the right ventricle, then is pumped to the lungs for oxygenation. Oxygen-rich blood returns to the heart through the left atrium, is pumped into the body through the left ventricle.


Three chambered hearts generally consist of which numbers of artia and ventricles?

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What trimester is the human heart formed?

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