Blood circulation is very important in the body of all organisms. It is through blood circulation that organisms are able to absorb water and mineral salts in the body. It is, therefore, healthy to have blood flowing all over the body in the veins. The flow of blood around the body takes place in a series of processes that vary from one organism to another (Meng et al. 1201). Some animals have a double circulation of blood, where the blood goes to the heart twice for a complete round, while other animals only have a single circulation, where the blood goes through the heart once for complete circulation. A typical example of the above statement is fish, where blood only goes to the heart once for complete circulation, and man, on the other hand, experiences double circulation.
Mammals experience double circulation. In mammals, the right side of the heart is always responsible for receiving blood from all other parts of the body (Meng et al. 1201). This kind of blood is usually low in oxygen, also known as deoxygenated blood, and it enters the right atrium before it goes down to the right ventricle, which immediately pumps it to the lungs for purification. The purified blood then comes back to the heart through the left atrium down to the left ventricle, where it is pumped again to the rest of the body parts (Gutierrez et al. 2367). Contrary to the circulation of blood in men, in fish, the circulation of blood is just single round and not double. Fish contains only one ventricle and one atrium in their hearts. The blood has less oxygen; that is, the deoxygenated blood from the rest of the body parts gets in the heart through the atrium down to the ventricle, where it is pumped out to the gills where purification of the blood takes place (Gutierrez et al. 2369). With fish, the purification of blood takes place in the gills, not the lungs. From the gills, the blood then flows through to all body parts, and the circulation is complete.
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