The turtle's heart consists of three chambers, their atrium are completely divided while their ventricles are incompletely divided. The structure of the turtle's circulatory system allows the complete separation of oxygenated and deoxygenated blood. This makes the blood circulation of the turtle flexible.
Ongoing effects include rising sea levels due to thermal expansion and melting of glaciers and ice sheets, and warming of the ocean surface, leading to increased temperature stratification.
The doctor <span>suspected that this characteristic was the result of a</span> somatic mutation that happened in the developing embryo, but probably wouldn't affect the daughter's egg cells.
