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Do hemichordates have a heart?


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Hemichordates:

  1. Hemichordates are the only marine, free-living, muscular organisms, despite not having a notochord, they are associated with chordates.
  2. Hemichordata comes under the non-chordates.
  3. The majority of non-chordates exhibit dorsal hearts.
  4. A dorsal heart is found in hemichordates.
  5. Hemichordates have a complex circulatory system that includes a contractile heart vesicle at the dorsal end and two dorsoventral arteries.

Yes, Hemichordates have a heart.


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