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The advantages and disadvantages of having additional heart in human body.

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Heart is muscular organ help in circulation of blood into whole body. It also helps in transportation of oxygen and nutrients to the body through blood and removes carbon dioxide and metabolic waste. It is located between the lungs. Deoxygenated blood is pumped into lungs where the blood gets oxygenated and this oxygenated blood comes into heart.

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