BLOOD
TRANSPORTAITION
REGULATION
DEFENCE PROTECTION HOMEOSTESYS
TRANSPORTAITION
REGULATION
DEFENCE PROTECTION HOMEOSTESYS
Vertebrates, and a few invertebrates, have a closed circulatory system. Closed circulatory systems have the blood closed at all times within vessels of different size and wall thickness. In this type of system, blood is pumped by a heart through vessels, and does not normally fill body cavities. ![]() | The open circulatory system is common to molluscs and arthropods. Open circulatory systems (evolved in crustaceans, insects, mollusks and other invertebrates) pump blood into a hemocoel with the blood diffusing back to the circulatory system between cells. Blood is pumped by a heart into the body cavities, where tissues are surrounded by the blood. ![]() |
Human heart![]() | Crayfish heart![]() |