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Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Biology

Chapter

Body Fluids and Circulation

Question:

In amphibians and reptiles which chamber of heart receives deoxygenated blood from different body parts?

Options:

Left atrium.

Right atrium.

Left ventricle.

Right ventricle.

Correct Answer:

Right atrium.

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (2) -Right atrium.

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. In amphibians and reptiles, the left atrium receives oxygenated blood from the gills/lungs/skin and the right atrium gets the deoxygenated blood from other body parts. However, they get mixed up in the single ventricle which pumps out mixed blood (incomplete double circulation).
Whereas crocodiles, birds and mammals possess a 4-chambered heart with two atria and two ventricles. In birds and mammals, oxygenated and deoxygenated blood received by the left and right atria respectively passes on to the ventricles of the same sides. The ventricles pump it out without any mixing up, i.e., two separate circulatory pathways are present in these organisms, hence, these animals have double circulation.