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The question can be answered in a variety of ways. You are encouraged (and in some case required) to use graphs and diagrams as part of your answer, to illustrate your argument or particular concept. This question requires a discussion of vertebrate cardiovascular system other than human.
The vertebrate cardiovascular (CV) system has a job of delivering a variety of molecules, entrained in plasma, to all the cells in your body. How does it achieve this function effectively (at sufficient rate) and efficiently (with minimal energetic cost)? How does the transport & transfer function differ in extant endotherms and ectotherms? Among vertebrates there's a wealth of circulatory designs, each of which must perform the transport/transfer function. Human CV system is similar only to that of other mammals (and birds, to some extent), but why would you leave out other vertebrates? How do their CV systems work? How good are they at transport? What are the constraints in different CV systems? So much to write about... This discussion should involve different cardiovascular systems.