Scientists believe that the heart of the common (chordate) ancestor of all vertebrates

A. consisted of a single ventricle.
B. had three chambers.
C. had two chambers.
D. had four chambers.
E. was little more than a heavily-muscled region of the ventral artery.


Answer: E

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