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Give reasons for the following :
(i) The muscular walls of ventricles are thicker than the walls of atria.
(ii) Arteries have thick elastic walls.

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(i) As ventricle have to pump blood into various organs.
(ii) Since the blood emerges from the heart under high pressure.
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