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Heart
Blood
vessels
Sinuses
and organs
Blood
Heartlike vessels
structures
Insect: Annelid:
Open Circulatory System Closed Circulatory System
Invertebrate Circulatory System
• Closed circulatory system
– Allows for the animal to be larger in size
• Insects have an open circulatory
– Blood travels through the body by diffusion
– Snails (gastropods) also have open circulatory
system
Vertebrate circulatory systems
• Chordate circulatory systems range from a single loop system (found in
organisms with gills) to double loop systems.
Double-Loop Circulatory System
Single-Loop
Circulatory System