If an animal has an open circulatory system, it will not have

a. a heart.
b. respiratory organs.
c. oxygen-carrying pigments.
d. transport of nutrients.
e. capillaries.


E; Open circulatory systems, by definition, bathe tissues directly in blood or the equivalent. They do not exchange gases and nutrients across capillaries and may not even have arteries and veins leading to and from the heart. They do have hearts to move the fluid around (choice a) and the blood will carry nutrients (choice d), and sometimes (but not always) respiratory pigments (choice c). Creatures with open circulatory systems may uses gills, tracheae, or book lungs as respiratory organs (choice b).

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